Chapter 1
The Web: An Overview
Ever since its beginning in the early 1980s, the Web has been evolving and maturing. Today, the Web’s impact on how industries, governments, institutions, and individuals conduct business and socialize, is ever expanding. It is not surprising that the need for well-trained people to develop and program websites is increasing at a rapid pace.
The Web involves networking, protocols, servers, clients as well as languages, services, and user interfaces. Thus, the Web is a rather complicated arena, and mastering Web development involves in-depth understanding and working experience with all the involved technologies and how to combine them for specific functions and effects.
Even for people who will not become Web ...
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