What Happens When You Load a Web Page? [Video]
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When you type in a URL and the web page loads, everything seems so simple. Peel back the layers, however, and you see a complex delivery system built around data packets. Watch this informative video to see how your web requests actually work.
Courtesy of The World Science Festival, we find this well put together video demonstrating how a trans-Atlantic web page request works.
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