alex/what-happens-when
An attempt to answer the age old interview question "What happens when you type google.com into your browser and press enter?"
43.4k stars · 5.7k forks
This repo isn't software code, so code checks are limited.
Caution
Caution: no human commits in a year, and most questions go unanswered.
Why
- No human commits since February 2022, and only 0 of 8 recent issues got a maintainer reply. The repository holds mostly documentation, data or model files, so inactivity matters less than for a code library. (source 1, source 2, source 3, source 4)
- GitHub found no license file, so the content is not clearly licensed for reuse. (source 1)
What would change this
- A release or merged commit from a maintainer, or replies to recent issues.
- A license file is added.
Maintenance
CompleteDormant
- Human commits, 30 days
- 0
- Human commits, 90 days
- 0
- Human commits, 365 days
- 0
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 0%
- Last commit
- Feb 8, 2022 (4 years ago)
- Last human commit
- Feb 8, 2022 (4 years ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 0
- Last release
- none found
- Median PR merge time
- 1 hour
Responsiveness: of 8 recent issues, 0% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.
- No human commits in 365 days, and most issues go unanswered.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Personal account
- Commits sampled
- 100 since Feb 4, 2015
- Authors for half of commits
- 3
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 15
- Contributors
- 68
Top committers
- Benjamin: 24% of commits
- alex: 18% of commits
- therealphildini: 8% of commits
- BenjaminSchool: 7% of commits
- scottsb: 6% of commits
- No human commits in the last 365 days, so shares use the newest 100 commits back to 2015-02-04T19:50:25Z.
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Jan 16, 2015 to Feb 19, 2015: about 5.7k more stars than usual, peak 1.1k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Mar 11, 2015 to Mar 17, 2015: about 638 more stars than usual, peak 386 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Apr 28, 2015 to Apr 30, 2015: about 102 more stars than usual, peak 66 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Apr 24, 2016 to Apr 28, 2016: about 159 more stars than usual, peak 66 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- May 20, 2016 to May 25, 2016: about 1k more stars than usual, peak 509 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Nov 27, 2016 to Nov 29, 2016: about 109 more stars than usual, peak 71 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Dec 5, 2016 to Dec 7, 2016: about 84 more stars than usual, peak 66 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Mar 4, 2017 to Mar 9, 2017: about 242 more stars than usual, peak 95 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jul 29, 2017 to Aug 18, 2017: about 3.6k more stars than usual, peak 964 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jun 27, 2018 to Jun 29, 2018: about 69 more stars than usual, peak 44 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jul 31, 2018 to Aug 2, 2018: about 51 more stars than usual, peak 37 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Sep 25, 2018 to Sep 27, 2018: about 51 more stars than usual, peak 27 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Mar 28, 2019 to Mar 29, 2019: about 87 more stars than usual, peak 82 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Sep 3, 2019 to Sep 5, 2019: about 59 more stars than usual, peak 34 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jan 13, 2020 to Jan 14, 2020: about 59 more stars than usual, peak 49 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Aug 23, 2020 to Aug 27, 2020: about 216 more stars than usual, peak 103 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Dec 20, 2020 to Dec 24, 2020: about 280 more stars than usual, peak 127 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Aug 26, 2021 to Aug 27, 2021: about 54 more stars than usual, peak 38 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Feb 4, 2022 to Feb 8, 2022: about 233 more stars than usual, peak 173 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Feb 14, 2022 to Feb 21, 2022: about 708 more stars than usual, peak 192 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
- Mar 4, 2022 to Mar 4, 2022: about 152 more stars than usual, peak 161 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- May 2, 2022 to May 5, 2022: about 77 more stars than usual, peak 37 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- May 18, 2022 to May 20, 2022: about 163 more stars than usual, peak 76 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Apr 9, 2024 to Apr 10, 2024: about 75 more stars than usual, peak 64 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Apr 26, 2024 to May 1, 2024: about 129 more stars than usual, peak 59 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- May 19, 2024 to May 20, 2024: about 85 more stars than usual, peak 65 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- 2 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 2026).
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- The star history looks organic.
- Engagement is not compared for non-code or mirror repositories.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
- Warning: GitHub finds no license for this repository, so default copyright rules apply and no reuse is granted. Details
- Info: The OpenSSF Scorecard for this project is 2.4 out of 10 (deps.dev). Details
License
- Now
- No license found
- A year ago
- Not known
Packages
No published packages found.
OpenSSF Scorecard: 2.4 out of 10 (via deps.dev).
Sources: GitHub: alex/what-happens-when
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- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
- Oct 13, 2026: Caution