The web
Keywords: | front end foundations, html, css, web development |
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- Web was started by Tim Berners-Lee:
- began as a way to distribute data on "cards" that were linked with "hyperlinks"
- was instituted later as the "World Wide Web"
- the language of webpages is HTML
- HTML is input as a plain text document that is then interpreted and converted into web content for visual consumption
- when we write HTML we put it inside of a file with the extension
.html
- so, web browsers are basically just "HTML readers"
- when we write HTML we put it inside of a file with the extension
- URLs can be thought of as paths to HTML files:
http://
(protocol) +example.com
(server) +/magic-cake.html
(path to an HTML file)- Browser uses URL to request HTML file from server and then display the HTML