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- What is the Internet?
or, “You Say Tomato, I Say TCP/IP”
What is the Internet, exactly? To some
of us, the Internet is where we stay in
touch with friends, get the news, shop, and
play games. To some others, the Internet can
mean their local broadband providers, or the
underground wires and fiber-optic cables that
carry data back and forth across cities and
oceans. Who is right?
A helpful place to start is near the Very
Beginning: 1974. That was the year that a few
smart computer researchers invented something
What is the Internet?
- CLOUD COMPUTING
or, why it's ok for a truck to crush your laptop
Modern computing in the age of the Internet is quite
a strange, remarkable thing. As you sit hunched over
your laptop at home watching a YouTube video or using
a search engine, you’re actually plugging into the
collective power of thousands of computers that serve
all this information to you from far-away rooms distributed
around the world. It’s almost like having a massive
supercomputer at your beck and call, thanks to the Internet.
- WEB APPS
or, "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Appiness"
If you play online games, use an online photo editor
, or rely on web-based services like Google Maps, Twitter,
Amazon, YouTube or Facebook, then you’re an active resident
in the wonderful world of web apps.
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- HTML, JAVASCRIPT, CSS AND MORE
or, this is not your mom's AJAX
Web pages are written in HTML, the web programming language
that tells web browsers how to structure and present content
on a web page. In other words, HTML provides the basic building
blocks for the web. And for a long time, those building blocks
were pretty simple and static: lines of text, links and images.
- HTML5
or, in the beginning there was no
- 3D IN THE BROWSER
or, browsing with more depth
3D graphics and animation can be truly captivating with all the right
details in place: details like lighting and shadows, reflections, and
realistic textures. But until now, it has been hard to deliver a compelling
3D experience, particularly over the Internet.