Web Basics

ESM 595K - Winter 2008

This first meeting will be a review of basic Web infrastructure. Before the meeting, you should:

• Download and install XAMPP (or XAMPP "Lite" if it's available) on your personal computer or your Bren account.
  • You can skip this step if you already have
    • a web server (e.g. Apache);
    • a server-side application language (e.g. PHP); and
    • a relational database (e.g. MySQL)

    installed.

• Read "Information Management: A Proposal" (20 pp.) -- this is Tim Berners-Lee's original proposal for what became the World-Wide Web.
  • cheat sheet
    • CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)
    • ENQUIRE
    • HyperCard
    • LHC (Large Hadron Collider)
    • UNIX manual pages
    • "uucp News" (Usenet)
    • VM/CMS
    • VMS
• Read "What Is Web 2.0" (about 16 pp.) -- this is the best recent summary of what the Web is turning into.
• Bring your questions! These will help structure where we go from here.