🗓️ Week 01 – Day 03: The Internet and the Web

The Internet vs the Web, and the basics of web standards

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12 July 2023

Let us now change our focus to the types of files one can encounter when collecting data from the Web, and the concepts underlying the Internet. More specifically, we will cover the following topics:

How the Internet works: protocols and background history
Distinguishing the Web from the Internet
Basics of web standards: HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Intro to markdown
HTML vs markdown

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📖 Recommended readings & Revision

Check out this episode of the Babagge podcast from the Economist featuring an interview with the creator of the TCP/IP protocol. Learn about the fascinating journey of how the protocol came to life and gain insights into the relationship between AI and the Internet nowadays:
Check out this recent WIRED interview with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web: