How the web works

incoggeek
2 min readFeb 13, 2022

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Well hello there my fellow readers and people reading this article, hope you are doing great! Been a long time I am publishing another blog. But this time, we’ll understand “How the web works”

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When you visit a website, the web server hosting that site could be anywhere in the world. In order for you to find the location of the webserver, your browser will first connect to a Domain Name System (DNS) server. The web server that hosts the website you are visiting can be anywhere in the world. It is the DNS servers that tell your browser how to find the website.

When you connect to the web, you do so via an Internet Service Provider (ISP). You type a domain name or web address into your browser to visit a site; for example www.google.com

Your computer contacts a network of servers called Domain Name System (DNS) servers. These act like phone books; they tell your computer the IP address associated with the requested domain name. An IP address is a number of up to 12 digits separated by periods / full stops. Every device connected to the web has a unique IP address; it is like the phone number for that computer.

The unique number that the DNS server returns to your computer allows your browser to contact the webserver that hosts the website you requested. A web server is a computer that is constantly connected to the web and is set up especially to send web pages to users. The web server then sends the page you requested back to your web browser.

Hope you liked it. Stay tuned, Sayonara!!

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