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# [What basically happens when you type a URL on the browser and click enter?](https://blog.rodgersabraham.me/url-chronicles?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

We usually do it hundreds of times in a day. We type a few characters into a bar, hit Enter and as if by magic a world of data appears. But for those of us in software engineering, we know it’s not ma

May 12 · 4 min read · blog.rodgersabraham.me  
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[Alex Mwaniki](https://hashnode.com/@lxmwaniky)

[May 12](https://hashnode.com/posts/url-chronicles/6a0377eb937b84f779bf6b8f/comment/6a0379c2937b84f779c08f79)

GREAT