Suggested Summary and Objectives

[kyleblee]

Suggested Summary

• In this video, we are introduced to the internet: how it came about, why it is special, what its primary purpose is, the client server model, the conventions that requests / responses abide by, and some of the other tools in place to make it all work.

Suggested Objectives

• Explain why technology is really a tool that allows us to communicate and be connected to one another.
• Recall that Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web and the language it uses to communicate, HTTP.
• Understand that the internet and the World Wide Web are different things, the former being invented by Vint Cerf long before Tim Berners-Lee created the latter.
• Explain how Google revolutionized the search engine (with PageRank) by categorizing what websites are about by what other websites say about them.
• Be amazed by the fact that we literally have high capacity optic cables running across the ocean, connecting the world with internet.
• Define HTTP as the language that browsers and servers use to speak to one another through requests and responses.
• Understand that requests and responses are really just long strings, organized by the conventions of HTTP so that browsers and servers can communicate back and forth.
• Use client server model to describe the back and forth process that occurs between clients and servers.
• Utilize the metaphor of an apartment complex to describe the structure of a URL / URI (which contains protocol, domain, and resource components).
• Describe the various HTTP verbs that define a request and what each of them tell the server about what the client wants to do.
• Describe the various HTTP response codes and what each “level” of response communicates to the client.

[curiositypaths]

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