How The Web Works

What is internet?

How is information broken down and sent?

What are packets?

What is a "client"?

What is a "server"?

What is HTTP and how does an HTTP request work?

What are DNS servers?

What is HTML and how is it used?

What is CSS and how is it used?

What's the difference between static and dynamic web pages?

What is your browser's web inspector?

What happens when you click "search" on google.com?

INTER NET

  • INTERCONNECTED (INTER)
  • NETWORK (NET)

Networks

Interconnected Network

Key things for an internet.

  • Rules for packaging data.
  • Interconnected network in which data is transfered.
  • A way to route package data across the internet.

Common rules that run the web today.

  • Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
  • Internet Backbone
  • Network packets (chopped and re-assembled)
  • IP Address (identity)
  • Routers

How The Web Works

By Harris Robin Kalash

How The Web Works

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