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What happens when you open a website

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What happens when you open a website

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Type an address, tap Go, and a page appears, usually within a second or two.

In that moment, your phone asked another computer for the page, got it back as code, and turned that code into what you see. Every website you have ever opened works this way.

Let's follow one trip, from your tap to the finished page.

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