1. The user clicks on a hyperlink to tell the browser to bring up a new webpage.
2. The browser collects URL information from the HREF field of the A tag.
3. The browser sends a "get" request, via the internet, to the server.
4. The DNS translates the domain name into the IP address of the server.
5. The server locates and copies the requested file (containing HTML) from its URL.
6. The server sends a "response" (containing a copy of the requested resource) to the client.
7. The browser interprets the HTML tags to correctly display a new web page on the output device.
8. The user views the new page on an output device.

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