First Chapter: From Zero to Your Own Website
From knowing how to use a browser to understanding how it all works, ending with your own website live on your own domain.
Part 1: The Machine
- 1What is a Computer?
- 2🕰 Before Computers: the Abacus and Mechanical Calculators
- 3What is Information?
- 4Counting Systems: Base 10 and Other Bases
- 5Binary
- 6Bit
- 7Byte · coming soon
- 8KB, MB, GB: Measuring Data
- 9Text as Numbers: ASCII to Unicode
- 10Images as Numbers
- 11Sound as Numbers
- 12🕰 Babbage and Lovelace
- 13🕰 Turing and the Universal Machine
- 14Electricity Basics: Current, Voltage, On and Off
- 15🕰 ENIAC and Vacuum Tubes
- 16🕰 The Transistor: an Electric Switch
- 17Logic Gates: AND, OR, NOT
- 18🕰 The Integrated Circuit
- 19CPU
- 20🕰 The Microprocessor
- 21Memory (RAM)
- 22Storage: HDD and SSD
- 23Input and Output Devices
- 24How the Parts Work Together
- 25🕰 The Personal Computer
- 26Machine Code
- 27Programming Languages
- 28Software and Programs
- 29Operating Systems
- 30Files and Folders
- 31🕰 The Smartphone
Part 2: The Network
- 32What is a Network?
- 33🕰 The Telegraph and the Telephone
- 34Packets
- 35Protocols
- 36🕰 ARPANET
- 37🕰 TCP/IP
- 38IP Address
- 39Router
- 40Internet Service Provider (ISP)
- 41Wi-Fi and Mobile Networks
- 42The Physical Internet: Cables, Undersea Lines, Data Centers
- 43Client and Server
- 44Server
- 45What is a Domain Name?
- 46DNS
- 47🕰 The World Wide Web
- 48URL
- 49HTTP
- 50HTTPS and Encryption Basics
- 51Web Browser
- 52Cookies and Privacy
- 53What Happens When You Type a URL · coming soon