The Big Picture

The web is a vast topic. To begin to aproach it, I thought it might help to look back at a brief history of where the ideas for the web came from, and some of the major milestones over the past many decades. While the web is only officially thirty years old at this point, its roots and ideas go back all the way to the 1940s.

While there are too many specific events and dates to call out, here is a small selection of some of the ones I thought were most important:

The major pieces of the web we'll tackle in this project are HTML, CSS, Javascript, HTTP, Python, and MySQL. Each of these major pieces will have many episodes devoted to it. Hopefully at the end, you'll have a good idea of how they all fit together, as well as some basic understanding of each.

• Episode 1 on Youtube