Tuesday, November 25, 2008

How Does Computing Work?

Starting with the most fundamental questions would be great, but it might take a while to get to actually useable information, so maybe we should start with something closer to the task at hand ... which is ... ???

Building interactive web sites.
or
Web Hosting.
or
Building On Line Places.

Building a web site is easy. You just get an account with a web hosting service.

Maybe you can host your own.

There's free hosting.

The reason you wouldn't host your own or use free hosting is it would tend to be limited. A good thing to learn would be the exact nature of those limits.

Definition of an on line place: visitors are present in the place. Explanation: when we visit an ordinary web page, we see the page, and maybe the page sees us, in some way, but other visitors can't see us (except maybe in the most limited way).

A web hosting service is a kind of on line place. Seeing the pages we created can be equated with seeing us.

What a web hosting service doesn't really offer is a way to see the place. We can see the people there, under certain circumstances, mainly one at a time. In a real place, though, we can see lots of people at once.

What kinds of tools can we use to create places on the web?

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