What Is the Web?
URLs, HTTP, and domain names, the basics of how the web works.
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How Web Pages Work
What really happens when you open a website.
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What Is a Browser?
The app that shows you web pages, like Chrome or Safari.
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What Is a Search Engine?
A service that helps you find information on the internet, fast.
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What Is a URL?
The address that points to a page on the web.
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What Is a Hyperlink?
A clickable link that takes you to another page, file, or resource.
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What Is DNS?
The internet's address book: it finds a site by its name.
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What Is HTTP?
The language browsers and servers use to talk.
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What Is HTTPS?
The secure version of HTTP that keeps your connection private.
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What Is HTML?
The building blocks that hold a web page together.
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What Is CSS?
The styles that make a web page look good.
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What Is JavaScript?
The code that makes a web page interactive.
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What Is an API?
How apps ask each other for information.
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What Is a Server?
The computer that stores and sends things when other computers ask.
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What Is a Web Server?
The computer that stores websites and sends pages to your browser.
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What Is Web Hosting?
The home for your website on the internet.
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What Is a Database?
Where apps and websites store and organize information.
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What Is an IP Address?
The number that finds a computer on the internet.
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What Are Cookies?
Little notes a website saves so it can remember you.
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