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You press Enter, and a web page appears. In between, your phone asks strangers for a number. It agrees on a secret key with the website, while every machine on the way can read their messages. Then it draws the page itself, from a long text. Each step has a real name, and you meet them all: the URL, IP addresses and DNS, packets and routers, TCP, HTTPS and its certificates, HTTP, HTML and CSS, and rendering.
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