The Web: What is a Web browser

This is because the Web is built on standards. The whole HTTP protocol thing, HTML, and all the stuff built on top of the Web is open, it’s something anyone can participate in. You and I could even create a browser, distribute it, and people could use it. It’d be a hard job, of course. But we can do it because the Web is open like Linux is open - we can create our own Linux distribution. But we can’t create our own operating system that runs on an iPhone, for example. That’s a closed platform. That doesn’t mean closed is bad per se, but open has lots of advantages. Back to the browser. So we have multiple browsers, and they all do more or less the same thing. They can be installed on your computer or phone. They all look pretty much the same: They allow you to type a URL, which is the address of a resource on the Web. We’ll see more on URLs in the next lesson, as they are one of the core fundamental blocks of the Web. After you type the URL, for example https://bootcamp.dev and press E

This is because the Web is built on standards. The whole HTTP protocol thing, HTML, and all the stuff built on top of the Web is open, it’s something anyone can participate in. You and I could even create a browser, distribute it, and people could use it. It’d be a hard job, of course. But we can do it because the Web is open like Linux is open - we can create our own Linux distribution. But we can’t create our own operating system that runs on an iPhone, for example. That’s a closed platform. That doesn’t mean closed is bad per se, but open has lots of advantages. Back to the browser. So we h