Google publishes online book to explain the internet

Marking the 20th anniversary of a crucial paper in the web’s development, Google has published an online book on 'things you’ve always wanted to know about the web and browsers but may have been afraid to ask'.

Google has produced a book on browsers and the web in association with illustrator Christoph Niemann 

Search engine Google has commemorated the 20th anniversary of a paper crucial to the web’s development by producing an online book to explain how the internet works.

Writing on the Google Blog, Chrome Product Marketing Manager Min Li Chan wrote that the book aimed to answer basic questions.

She wrote “how do browsers and the web actually work? What is HTML5—or HTML, for that matter? What do terms like “cookies” or “cloud computing” even mean? More practically, how can we keep ourselves safe from security threats like viruses when we’re online? To help answer these questions, we collaborated with the wonderful illustrator Christoph Niemann to publish an online guidebook called “20 Things I Learned about Browsers and the Web.” This handy guide is for those of us who’d like to better understand the technologies we use every day”.

The book uses HTML5, the latest web language, and is consequently available offline once the site has been downloaded. “We built “20 Things” in HTML5 so that we could incorporate features that hearken back to what we love about books—feeling the heft of a book’s cover, flipping a page or even reading under the covers with a flashlight,” wrote Min.

Source: The Telegraph

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