Web Fundamentals/Fundamentals
What Is the Web?
A beginner-friendly guide to the World Wide Web: what a website is, what a browser actually does, and why the whole thing is really just pages connected by links.
Sep 15, 20269 min read
Web Fundamentals
How the web actually works under the hood — HTTP, DNS, URLs, browsers, and how a page gets to you.
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Fundamentals
12 articles
Web Fundamentals/Fundamentals
Internet vs the Web: What's the Difference?
People use internet and web as if they mean the same thing, but they don't. Learn the simple distinction in plain language, with a roads-and-traffic analogy anyone can follow.
Sep 15, 20268 min read
Web Fundamentals/Fundamentals
How the Web Works: From Click to Page
A plain-language walkthrough of what really happens when you visit a website — from typing an address to the browser drawing the page on your screen.
Sep 15, 20269 min read
HTTP
14 articles
Web Fundamentals/HTTP
What Is HTTP? The Language of the Web Explained for Beginners
HTTP is how your browser and web servers talk to each other. Learn what a request and response look like, why it's human-readable, and how HTTPS keeps it safe.
Sep 15, 20269 min read
Web Fundamentals/HTTP
HTTP Requests and Responses
Every page you load is a conversation: your browser asks, a server answers. Learn the anatomy of an HTTP request and response, with a real raw example you can read line by line.
Sep 15, 20269 min read
Web Fundamentals/HTTP
HTTP Methods: GET, POST, and Friends
A beginner-friendly tour of HTTP methods. Learn what GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, and OPTIONS really do, plus what safe and idempotent actually mean.
Sep 15, 202610 min read
DNS & Domains
10 articles
Web Fundamentals/DNS & Domains
What Is a Domain Name?
A domain name is the human-friendly address you type to reach a website. Learn what it really is, why we use names instead of numbers, and the parts that make it up.
Sep 15, 20267 min read
Web Fundamentals/DNS & Domains
What Is DNS? The Web's Phonebook Explained
DNS turns a domain name like example.com into the IP address of a server, so your browser knows where to send its request. Here is what DNS is and why it exists, in plain language.
Sep 15, 20267 min read
Web Fundamentals/DNS & Domains
How DNS Works: The Lookup Journey
Follow a domain name from the moment you press Enter to the IP address that comes back. We trace every cache and server in the DNS lookup chain, step by step, in plain language.
Sep 15, 202610 min read
Browsers
10 articles
Web Fundamentals/Browsers
What Is a Web Browser?
A plain-language guide to what a web browser really is: the program that fetches web resources and turns them into the pages you see, tab by tab, click by click.
Sep 15, 20269 min read
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How Browsers Work: An Overview
A beginner-friendly tour of what your browser does between typing a URL and seeing a page: networking, parsing, the render tree, layout, paint, compositing, and the JavaScript engine.
Sep 15, 20269 min read
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The Browser Rendering Pipeline
How a browser turns your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript into actual pixels on screen — DOM, CSSOM, render tree, layout, paint, and compositing, explained step by step for beginners.
Sep 15, 202610 min read
Hosting & Delivery
10 articles
Web Fundamentals/Hosting & Delivery
What Is Web Hosting? A Beginner's Guide to Putting a Site Online
Web hosting means renting space on an always-on server so your website is reachable on the internet 24/7. Here is what a host actually does and why your laptop cannot do its job.
Sep 15, 202610 min read
Web Fundamentals/Hosting & Delivery
Types of Hosting Compared: Shared, VPS, Dedicated, Cloud, and Static
A beginner-friendly tour of web hosting options. Compare shared, VPS, dedicated, cloud, and static hosting by cost, control, scaling, and effort, with a clear table and tips on when each one fits.
Sep 15, 20268 min read
Web Fundamentals/Hosting & Delivery
What Is a CDN? How Content Gets Closer to Your Users
A beginner-friendly guide to CDNs (Content Delivery Networks): why distance slows the web, what gets cached at the edge, and how a CDN speeds up your site while protecting your origin server.
Sep 15, 202610 min read