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From snapping photos with a cellphone to streaming music through a browser, much of the tech trickery we take for granted in 2017 looks simple on the surface but involves a complex series of computations and calculations behind the scenes to make the magic happen. As an example, take Google.com.

You not might think much of visiting the most well-known search engine in your browser, but there’s a lot of heavy lifting going on to serve up the page, and, as noted by The Next Web, Mozilla developer Alex Gaynor has written a detailed guide to what’s actually going on in the background.

<a href="http://fieldguide.gizmodo.com/all-the-secret-stuff-that-happens-when-you-visit-google-1797626668">Read More</a>