Part 4. How the World Wide Web Works
When many people use the word “Internet,” they are really talking about the World Wide Web. The Web is the most interesting, most innovative, most visible, and fastest growing part of the Internet. To a great degree, the explosive growth of the Web has been what has fueled the enormous amount of interest in the Internet. When people refer to “surfing the Net,” they’re usually talking about using the World Wide Web.
This section of the book looks in great detail at how the World Wide Web works, rom such basic technologies as how web pages work to more advanced features, such as using grid computing ...
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