Web Development for Beginners: Getting Started Made Easy - 1

Before we dive into actual development, there are a few things we need to get familiar with—like some basic tech jargon that pops up everywhere in web dev.
Why start here? Because understanding these terms makes your learning ASAP == As Smooth As Possible.
Don’t worry—I might throw a few fancy words your way, but I promise to explain them ASAP == As Simple As Possible.
Bear with my writing; it may be boring, but you're going to learn a lot.

Let’s start with something more essential to us than oxygen: the internet.

So, what is the internet?

In short, it’s “internetworking.” Imagine connecting a bunch of computers in your home or office so they can share files, messages, or resources. That setup is called a network.
Now, when millions of such networks across the globe are connected together—you get the Internet.

Simple, right? 😊

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This blog aims to simplify the complex terms developers use, so when you start learning, you won't be left thinking "huh?" or "what's that?" Each topic deserves its own detailed blog.

🌐Let’s Move on to the sacred WEB.

Let’s all take a moment to thank Tim Berners-Lee for giving us the World Wide Web—our favorite invention ever.
(Also, fun fact: “WWW” has more syllables than World Wide Web. How weird is that? 😐)

Now imagine this:

You’ve got some really important (and maybe even interesting ) information to share with everyone on Earth.
How do you do that? Simple—host it on the web.
So, what is the Web?

The Web is basically a vast collection of documents stored on web servers under domains.

• Think of web servers as homes where these documents live.

• A domain is like the address to reach that home.

• These documents? They're called web pages.

• When multiple related web pages are grouped under a single domain, you’ve got yourself a website.

• The Internet and the web aren't the same thing; the web uses the Internet to share data.

For example, facebook.com is the address (domain) for the Facebook website.

And web pages aren’t just boring walls of text—they can contain:

• Images 🖼️

• Videos 🎥

• Audio 🎧

• Links to other pages 🔗

• And more!

🔗 Let’s Talk Hyperlinks (You Just Used One!)

Web pages can also be connected to each other using hyperlinks.

Just take a look at the link in the URL bar above—it probably looks like a mess of slashes, numbers, and words. Not super readable, right?

Now imagine instead of that mess, the link simply says:
👉 “Web Dev for Beginners” — way better, right?

That’s what a hyperlink does: it replaces complicated, technical-looking links with human-readable text so you know exactly where you’re headed when you click it.

Hyperlinks are usually underlined, and they’re created using something called HTML—yup, once again, thanks to Tim Berners-Lee.

🎉 Wrapping Up

So yeah, that brings us to the end of this sweet and simple introduction to the web.

In the next blog, we’ll dive into some of the protocols that make the web work—like HTTP, IP, TCP, and more.
Don’t worry, we’ll keep it light, fun, and beginner-friendly—just like this one.

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