What happens when you Google something?

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According to Alex Gaynor--who has made many substantial contributions to Django, PyPy, CPython, PyCA Cryptography, and other projects--et al. (2015), these are the 24 things that happen after someone googles something. It's quite an elaborate process, but very intriguing. Click here to read more...

...you type google.com into your browser's address box and press enter?

The "g" key is pressed
The "enter" key bottoms out
Interrupt fires [NOT for USB keyboards]
(On Windows) A WM_KEYDOWN message is sent to the app
(On OS X) A KeyDown NSEvent is sent to the app
(On GNU/Linux) the Xorg server listens for keycodes
Parse URL
Is it a URL or a search term?
Check HSTS list
Convert non-ASCII Unicode characters in hostname
DNS lookup
ARP process
Opening of a socket
TLS handshake
HTTP protocol
HTTP Server Request Handle
Behind the scenes of the Browser
Browser
HTML parsing
CSS interpretation
Page Rendering
GPU Rendering
Window Server
Post-rendering and user-induced execution