How the Internet Works

About this book

What happens in the split second between a click and a finished page, read aloud.

A calm tour of what actually stands behind an open page. How the internet works as a physical network, what all of it rides on, what an IP address is and how a packet finds its way across the world. Then reliability and order, DNS as the internet's phone book, the language of HTTP and the lock of HTTPS, and finally the life of a single request from start to finish. There is no code in the book: you can listen on the move.