Talking HTTP
You might have thought Chinese, Spanish, and English were the most popular languages in the world—but they’re not. What makes the world go around these days are three other languages: HTTP, HTML, and CSS (ha!).
HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol, and it is the protocol the web speaks to send and receive information from one place to another.
You see, every time you click a hyperlink or navigate to another web page, something called an HTTP GET request gets sent from your browser to a server.
This HTTP GET is a command—more specifically, a verb that says, “I would like to get something at this address.” In this case, we are ...
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