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Ok. So when I started writing JavaScript the world was a very simple place. You’d just open up a html file, write a JavaScript tag, and them boom — you are running JavaScript. <script> console.log(“Hello!”); </script> We’ll things have changed. I haven’t programmed JavaScript regularly in the last few years and I feel like a JavaScript Rip … Continue reading Hello World for JavaScript with npm modules in the browser
In today’s post I want to demystify the term HTML. HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language, and it is the way that you write web pages. A markup language, according to Wikipedia, is a way to “annotate the text” to provide some additional information. Every webpage has HTML, which includes a set of “tags” to … Continue reading How the Internet Works 9: HTML
I wrote recently about how everything in computers is stored as 0s and 1s, and the language of computers is binary. You can read about that here. However, one bit or a few bits doesn’t really contain that much information. In general you will be dealing with thousands, or millions, or billions, or even more … Continue reading How the Internet Works 8: Bytes, Megabytes, and More
Part of my goal with this series of posts it to demystify a lot of the jargon that you find when people talk about the internet. Each of these topics has a whole literature and special part of the internet dedicated to it, but just knowing what the general idea is a step in the … Continue reading How the Internet Works 7 – Clients and Servers
This is going to be an extremely brief and high level overview of what a programming language is. My goal here is that if you don’t know what a programming language is before reading this, you have an idea of what it is after. A programming language is just the way that you tell a … Continue reading How the Internet Works 6 – Programming Languages
Theres a lot more to how the internet works, but for a few posts I want to talk about a few side topics which sort of underly everything about computers and the internet. The topic for this post is binary and bits. So the first question is, what is binary? Binary is a base 2 … Continue reading How the Internet Works 5: Bits and Binary
My last few posts have been about names on the internet. I talked about domain names and urls, and today I’m going to talk about IP addresses.. IP Addresses continue the very interesting series of names that we find on the internet. For us, they are sort of the end of the line when it … Continue reading How the Internet Works 4: IP Addresses
What is a URL? It’s just the start of a whole bunch of jargon-y acronyms that you’ll find here on the internet. The quick explanation is that a url is just a full name for something on the internet. Last post I talked about domain names, and domain names are just a part of the … Continue reading How the Internet Works 3: URLs
A domain name is one of the most basic pieces of the internet. Basically, it is the way that you refer to a site on the internet, it is its address, or simply its name. Here are some domain names you may have heard of: www.google.com www.facebook.com www.thekeesh.com These are all domain names. But so … Continue reading How the Internet Works 2: Domain Names
