See this page fetch itself, byte by byte, over TLS
While we all (HN audience) know roughly what kind of things are going on, seeing it in all the delicate details is fascinating.Just thinking that all these bytes and everything that's happening have 6 more layers below all the way to physical electrical/electromagnetic flow, all routed potentially through many different ISP backbones and possibly international routes, all happening in roughly less than 1/10 of a second is even more fascinating.