So what is the internet anyway?
It all started with computers linking together to share their resources. This is called Networking. When the computers that are linked are close together this is called a LAN (Local Area Network). When the network covers a larger area, such as a whole city, this is called a WAN (Wide Area Network). The Internet is a huge WAN - a network of a network of a network..well, you get the idea.
A Web Page is stored on a server - which then, imagine this, SERVES the web page to users of the Web.
Web pages are actually text files written in HTML. “WHAT?!? ANOTHER ACRONYM?!? WHAT THE ?!?” Actually, HTML stands for Hello Tom My Love…ok, not really. HyperText Markup Language. HTML was developed from yet another acronym SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language).
To create HTML pages, the only thing you need is a text-editor. While you can use something like Notepad (gross), I suggest you use Textpad. Before you get all upset about having to buy something, it’s free.
HTML consists of code called Tags. The web browser such as Firefox, or Internet Explorer interprets the tags and renders the code for all of us to see. Neato.
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