BookofthewebIngredients

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Ingredients of the Web

A list of The Ingredients of the Web: a list of the most important Internet concepts that make the difference between loving the web and hating every minute you're at the keyboard. What are those key ideas? You tell us.

• The Internet before the Web, and other networks before the Internet

• open standards

• open source

• Net neutrality

• federated web

• definitions & relationship between: HTML, RSS, CSS

• open/free web tools

• Creative Commons

• the difference between the browser and the web

• the difference between the internet and the web

• web for all

• web of trust

• netiquette - evolving codes of behaviour & interaction

• privacy controls: the ability to shape what you share

• the permanent record/digital footprint: staying conscious of the fact that whatever you do may be online FOREVER

• phishing, spamming, Joe jobs, malware, botnets, DOS attacks

• culture of contribution

• culture of sharing

• support for all languages and writing systems through Unicode, including Unicode domain names

• support for collaboration

• routing around damage, including censorship

• IPv4 to IPv6 transition

• social networking for fun, profit, destroying poverty, and promoting democracy