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How The Internet Works

An explorable, zoomable picture of how the internet works: from Wi‑Fi to the fibre under the sea, today and in 1995.

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Published: 27 Sep 2026 (21d ago)
Medium: web
Language: English (the page says so itself)
Subject: Data and research, Learning
First seen: 6 Oct 2026, 13:12 UTC

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What we can see

68 hygiene score

Certificate issued by YR1, 25 days remaining
Cookie attributes no cookies set
Credentials and payment does not ask for either
No strict transport security
Served over HTTPS
Mail authentication neither published
No insecure resources
Redirects none
Security headers 0 of 5 set
Third-party origins none
Transport security TLS 1.3

Observed 6 Oct 2026 by fetching the page as a browser would. This describes hygiene and transparency, not safety: a missing header does not make a site dangerous, and a complete set does not make it trustworthy.

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6 Oct 2026 first indexed

How The Internet Works

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