What is the web?

The first chapter shows that the web is one service of the internet, and why it touches most areas of computing. It presents the development of the web from documents to applications, the main actors, the client–server model and layering, and the open standards that make worldwide cooperation possible. Here you also meet the shared example of the course: Kurzuspont, a university course catalogue. ^53a072

• The web as a general platform
• The evolution of the web: from the document web to the application-like web
• The main actors of the web: browser, server, search engine, and content provider
• The client–server model and multi-tier systems
• Web standards and interoperability