What happens when you type a URL in the web browser and press Enter? Computer Stuff #18

What happens when you type a URL in the web browser and press Enter? Computer Stuff They Didn't Teach You #18

We talk about TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, HTTPS, Http Responses, Certificates, Web Servers, Load Balancers and more.

Big thanks to Carlos Shults for his hard work on the English and Portuguese Transcripts!

[michaelclifton]

First 3 minutes, explains the scope of the question and why he's explaining to that scope. Giving clear context as to the what and why is absolutely wonderful and definately not a given when it comes to explanations of any sort of software or architecture on YouTube.

[dontown]

I was one of the very 1st to test out the ARPANET in 1969. They brought a telex machine to our high school here in Vancouver and by using an acoustic modem & telephone handset we sent an 'email' to SFU in neighboring Burnaby. The Internet has come a long way in 51 yrs. Ironically I still connect to the Internet on my home PC through a 40 yr old telephone line & get a speed of 5.5 mb/sec which is fast enough for me. Thanks for the video.

[gabymarrero]

Hi Scott, I've watched tons of videos on this topic, but yours was the one that explained the information the best! With the examples and analogies is so easy to understand, it takes real talent to take complex topics and break them down with simple explanations. Will for sure be a regular on your channel now! Thank

[juanrosello]

Your YT channel is pure GOLD! Thanks a lot!

[enzosambucetti]

Hey Scott greetings from Uruguay, I m a junior programmer working with .Net now a days. I found your channel surfing in youtube like 1 month ago, and I have to say that the work you make is great and perfect. You really talk about stuff that we didn ´t learn in University and there are really important to know and understand this big world. Continue like this because I want to continue learning of you. Have a nice day!
Pd: sory for my english haha I m learning and it is not fair if a use the translator.

[DolganoFF]

This is literally the question asked so often in the interviews!

[jameshobbs]

I think listening to Scottsplain helps me be a better father somehow.

[Tospaa]

Wow, I didn't know about lynx. I learn a new thing everytime I watch one of your videos. Thank you so much!

[Dominik-K]

Thank you very much for the video, Scott.
I learned this in the last 20 years, but your practical take on the topic will be my go-to for explaining it to others👍

[HypnoticMediaMarketing]

I was originally studying vedic astrology and I ended up here. both are about deep connections to hidden networks, expressing an ethereal reality; namaste

[rajav]

Congratulations Scott for reaching 1 lakh subscribers! 🎉

[Spellzzzweaver]

Thank you for providing the theory as to why this question is asked and highlighting the "should be able to reason out what they don't know" since I was starting to think I had to memorize this all

[yuusource]

This series of yours never disappointed me. Most of them I don’t need in my work but am always fascinated by how the stuffs work. Well explained.

[mhamd]

You are truly amazing Mr. Scott!
Thanks a lot for all the videos you are uploading in all series. Seriously, you address all your topic from the root and in a beautiful way.

[berkarslan]

Nice video, I think that's a popular interview question because the answer can take 15 seconds to hours depending on the knowledge of the interviewee.

I have a topic suggestion: "How to synchronize everything between different computers/VMs?". For example, I have 6-7 products I need to work on and I use different Hyper-V VMs for each of these products since these products have different requirements (installed applications, configurations etc.), and I need some kind of isolation between these products. I have a base VM in which I have all of the core development related stuff installed and configured nicely (including windows settings, custom shortcuts, WSL terminals etc.). With the help of this, when I need to work on a new product, I just clone this VM and make adjustments for the new product's requirements. The challenging part is to synchronize the common settings, applications between these VMs. For example, when a Windows Update ships out, I need to install it on every one of them. Or when I want to install a new cool application to my base VM (to make my development environment better), I need to install it on each of the VMs. I use GDrive so sync my note/text files, VSCode Sync Settings extension to sync my "text editor" settings, I save application configuration files into GDrive (for the compatible apps that allow storing the config file in a custom location) so that all Hyper-V VMs use the same setting files for the related applications etc. but there's still some serious maintenance cost for me. The advantages are huge though because I don't need to setup everything from scratch when I need to fire up a new machine or I can even format my host PC and have everything configured in an hour by restoring it from my base VM. I really would like to hear your opinion on this subject and would want to learn your methods so that maybe we can make our life easier by having our same personalized environments everywhere we go whether it's our Desktop PC, Laptop, VM, Workstation PC etc. (Sorry for the long text :) )

[Alex-ddoy]

Awesome explanations. Glad to have found your channel

[FaheemRasheed]

Thank you so much sir !! it's just truly amazing how beautifully you make things simple to understand.

THANK YOU SIR !

[Paulo-pvdb]

OMG, i wonder what Learning would be if there were more people like you around! Great job!

[LoupX]

I can say, without doubt, this is my favorite video from this series. I've never been asked that question before (that I remember) and as soon as I started thinking on the answer, I had to pause the video and it took me so long... "This happens, but this other thing happens before that, oh and this... etc" It never stop amazing me how complex and beautiful our tech is. Thanks for the content :)

[InnaBawks]

the wire is cat5 or cat5e or cat6. the connector is rj-45 :P - love your show btw.