12THE WORLD WIDE WEB
The previous chapter described the internet, the globally connected set of computer networks that share a suite of protocols. The World Wide Web is a system built on top of the internet, one so popular that it is often confused with the internet itself. In this chapter, we dive into the details of the web. We first look at its key attributes and related programming languages, and then we look at web browsers and web servers.
Overview of the World Wide Web
The World Wide Web, often just called the web, is a set of resources, delivered using HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) over the internet. A web resource is anything that ...
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