Harvard Extension School
CSCI E-12 Fundamentals of Web Site Development
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Features of the World Wide Web
HyperText Information System
Cross-Platform and Cross-Device
Distributed
187 million active sites and around 8.9 million "web-facing" computers
(
Netcraft August 2019 Web Server Survey
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Open Standards
TCP/IP, HTTP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Open Source
Mozilla, WebKit, Apache HTTP Server, JavaScript, PHP, Python, etc.
Web Browser: provides a single interface to many services
Information, Shopping, Finance, Communication, Business, etc.
Dynamic, Interactive, Evolving
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