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security/how-websites-check-your-password-without-ever-storing-it.md
How websites check your password without ever storing it
A well-built website never saves your password. It saves a hash: a fixed-size fingerprint that's quick to compute and impossible to run…
web/html-tags-how-angle-brackets-become-a-tree-in-your-browser.md
HTML tags: how angle brackets become a tree in your browser
Every web page is plain text with labels in angle brackets: HTML tags. An opening tag, some content and a closing tag make an element, and…
networks/how-does-example-com-turn-into-an-ip-address-dns-step-by-step.md
How does example.com turn into an IP address? DNS, step by step
Computers find each other by number, not by name. Before your browser can load example.com, it has to find the site's IP address, and…