Chapter 5. Introduction to Internet Programming
OBJECTIVES
Review Internet basics
Learn the difference between HTML and ASP
Understand what makes ASP.NET better than ASP
The Internet is a wide area network—the widest area network possible, really—that consists of a huge number of computers connected via phone lines, wireless connections, and satellites. When you access the Internet, your computer becomes part of that network.
In order to take advantage of ASP.NET, and to understand how Web pages and data make their way across the Internet, you must first have a basic understanding of how the Internet works. In addition, because requesting an ASP.NET page from within a browser retrieves HTML as the response, it's important that you understand at ...
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