How the Internet Finds You
What happens between typing a website's name and seeing the page
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A letter to the Honey House
website, browser
Old Ida's address book
domain name, IP address, DNS, cache
Little numbered envelopes
server, packet, router
Thank-you cards and wax seals
TCP, HTTPS
Goodnight, little Pip
the wind-down