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THE INTERNET MACHINE

What’s in the set, book by book

Book 01 · FRONTEND · 7 chapters

Why can we see a website at all?

  1. 01A web page is made of three materials
  2. 02How a browser reads a page
  3. 03Everything on screen is a box
  4. 04Small screens, big screens, one page
  5. 05A page that listens
  6. 06The building blocks of a page
  7. 07A web for everyone
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Book 02 · BACKEND · 6 chapters

When we press a button, who does the work?

  1. 01Requests and responses
  2. 02The server’s many doors
  3. 03Never trust what you’re sent
  4. 04APIs: the menu machines use to talk
  5. 05Who are you?
  6. 06When the machine breaks
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Book 03 · DATABASE · 6 chapters

How does a website remember us?

  1. 01The memory of a website
  2. 02Tables that hold hands
  3. 03Asking questions with SQL
  4. 04Design the drawers right from the start
  5. 05Finding one row in a million
  6. 06Data must not vanish or leak
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Book 04 · WEBSITE ONLINE · 7 chapters

How does a website travel from one computer to the whole world?

  1. 01From my machine to the whole world
  2. 02Every machine has an address
  3. 03Data travels in pieces
  4. 04The padlock by the address
  5. 05Where websites live
  6. 06When the whole world shows up at once
  7. 07Updating a site without breaking it
See Book 04 in detail