Web Basics: Under the Hood

Have you ever found yourself thinking there might be a layer of the web that you’re missing? What’s actually happening when you click a link, and why does knowing this matter? To feel more confident about using the web, you might want to know a bit more about the basics.

• We’ll start broad, discussing the difference between the web and the internet.
• You browse using a search engine, so what’s a “browser”?
• Learn to read a web page: its parts, what they do, and what they can tell you about the page’s source.

A short talk by Matt and Heather, with plenty of lab time to try your hand at the skills you’ve learned.