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Discussion on: What happens when you type 'google.com' into a browser and press Enter?

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Daniel Lo Nigro • Edited

You could go on for much longer if you also talk about hardware interrupts from the keyboard, and the handling of the WM_KEYDOWN window messages. That is, when you type "google.com" on the keyboard, where do those key presses go? How does the computer read and process them?

For every abstraction layer, there's always a deeper layer that you could explain in more detail. :)

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Max Cerrina

That is, when you type "google.com" on the keyboard, where do those key presses go? How does the computer read and process them?

welp, guess know what rabbithole I'm falling down next