Getting a Web Development Job For Dummies

Chapter 6

Discovering the Technology behind the Internet

In This Chapter

Getting up to speed on Internet basics

Understanding netiquette

Exploring binary

Turning the key to IP

The web was originally called the World Wide Web, and that’s what the “www” in most web addresses stands for. Today, the web is at a fascinating point in its development.

Because the web was only invented, and initially popularized, in the early 1990s, many people who were active in its initial development and growth are still not only alive, but active professionally, today. The founders are still working, speaking, writing, and generally sharing their expertise and making their opinions heard.

At the same time, the web has been around a couple of decades now. So many waves of new web developers have gotten involved, and the newer people are more and more distant from that early burst of work, energy, enthusiasm, and money. They’re also more distant from the core technical knowledge that early web developers had to learn to get anything done, and from the web development lessons that early adopters absorbed. ...