Description
If you are new to the web or nothing else makes sense on this website, this is a good place to start. By reading through and watching the videos in this online book you should be able to get s grasp on what the web is on a basic level to help propel you towards more advanced learning. Web Basics has a look at some of the fundamental concepts and tools of the web. These include where the worldwide web has come from, the differences between the internet and the web, what a web browser is, what are cookies, what are URL's, what is HTTP, internet protocol (IP) and more. Learning is facilitated by a mixture of written text explanations, links to external learning resources and curated video material.
Book:
Web Basics
Contents
The creator of the World Wide Web was Tim Berners-Lee, a British Scientist working for CERN. He wrote the first proposal for the World Wide Web in Mar...
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Difference between the internet and the web main points
The Internet is NOT the same thing as the Web
The Web uses Internet infrastructure to operate...
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A web browser is a software application you install on your computer to allow you to browse the World Wide Web. By typing in a web address in the ad...
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When visiting a website, sometimes it's useful to store preferences to remember what you have chosen. Importantly, this information can be recalled ...
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An important term when learning the Web. A URL is short for Uniform Resource Locator and relates to a location on the Web. This may be a web page,...
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HTTP is short for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. It defines how data is sent back and forth across the Web. There is a "client" computer that requ...
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While Internet Protocol (IP) can be quite a complex thing and probably outside the scope of "Web Basics" I think it's a useful thing to understand on ...
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The Video
This is the first episode of Website Library on the YouTube channel... Basics of the Web - An introduction to the World Wide Web
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