This is How Your Internet Browser Works
An interesting representation of how things appear in your browser.
These days it seems almost like magic that you can type in "tomshardware.com" into your browser and it'll bring you here. It's almost as if your internet browser knows that typing those words will direct it one of our servers that'll serve you the page that you're reading right now.
In terms of operation, it's exceedingly simple, but the technical details of how it all comes together is actually quite involved.
A comic strip by Vlad Gerasimov explains how the internet works, or at least how your browser fetches you the pages that you want to see.
Check out more of Gerasimov's work at Vladstudio.
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ikefu So all these browser wars and speed test races we see are actually just a bunch of guys bragging about who has the faster walking polka-dots?Reply
I knew it! -
nukemaster A very simplified version of packets getting where they have to go and back.Reply
icepick314I don't see series of tubes...FAKE!!!!!!!!!!You act like the internet is not a big truck....and that we can't dump something on it. -
jedi940 Clever. I like it. Although its probably only funny to those of us that understand what actually goes on. The average user probably still won't get it.Reply -
Bolbi These days it seems almost like magic that you can type in "tomshardware.com" into your browser and it'll bring you here.
Thanks to Google Browse by Name, I don't even have to add ".com". :)
Great job, Vlad!