On: “What happens when you type Google.com into your browser and press enter?”

[stephen_g]

Lots of interesting things happen in between your computer and Google's servers - like ISPs exchanging routing information using BGP, so the routers can determine a route through each different AS (provider/transit network) it has to go through to actually Fong the machine with that IP, and the kinds of physical and data layers it goes through (cable or DSL, fibre, and Ethernet, SONET/SDH, maybe tunnelling over MPLS at some point) etc.

[elchief → stephen_g]

Is Fonging a thing, or typo? :)

[praptak → elchief]

This is a question everyone has to Fong out themselves.

[stephen_g → elchief]

I would love if that were a thing. It was meant to be 'find' but typing on a phone keyboard is hard!