How the Web Works
The first thing to understand about the web is that everything, and I mean everything, is a URL.
URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) are those links or addresses you see at the top of your browser when you click things in the web. That Facebook update. That banking transaction. That funny cat video. All of those are URLs. And when you click those things in your browser, magical things start to happen.
First, a lookup service called DNS (Domain Name System) takes part of that URL you clicked and converts it into something called an ...
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