alex/what-happens-when
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An attempt to answer the age old interview question "What happens when you type google.com into your browser and press enter?"
62 mentions on Hacker News by 58 people: 23 stories, 39 comments · first 2013-11-08 · latest 2026-08-03
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https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when
comment by kragniz · 2016-04-27 · in Hiring Is Broken – My interview experience in the tech industry -
…google.com into my browser". I asked them where they had gotten idea from and showed them this: https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when . They decided ask me another question soon after. Sometimes the questions aren't even related to…
comment by truetuna · 2016-04-27 · in Hiring Is Broken – My interview experience in the tech industry -
https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when#the-g-key-is-press...
comment by V-2 · 2016-04-02 · in I’m a boring programmer (and proud of it) -
I like this version: https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when It doesn't address the 'progressive layers' issue, but it _does_ include a TOC. I have been asked this question before, and my answer was definitely biased towards the…
comment by rahimnathwani · 2015-10-12 · in How the Internet works -
…question ""What happens when you type google.com into your browser's address box and press enter?"" https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when
comment by bgurupra · 2015-07-15 · in Ask HN: How, bottom to top, does a modern web application work? -
also relevant (found here on HN last month) what happens when you... https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when
comment by BorisMelnik · 2015-04-26 · in What happens when you hit Ctrl-C? -
…I'm well aware I couldn't reproduce or accurately describe the whole system/process on my own. [1] https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when
comment by Riseed · 2015-04-14 · in Political Extremism Is Supported by an Illusion of Understanding (2013) [pdf] -
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What happens when you type Google.com into your browser's address boxstory by ceocoder · 2015-03-12 · 43 comments
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“What happens when you type Google.com into your browser and press enter?”story by alexcasalboni · 2015-02-18 · 0 comments
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…excuse to try to remember how Windows actually handled keyboard input. I submitted a pull request: https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when/pull/21
comment by cek · 2015-01-17 · in “What happens when you type Google.com into your browser and press enter?” -
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“What happens when you type Google.com into your browser and press enter?”story by xvirk · 2015-01-16 · 129 comments
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Collaborate to "What happens you type http://Google.com into your browser?”story by bandris · 2013-11-08 · 0 comments