I think that the Programming the World Wide Web chapter would definitely be something that I will resource often. It was interesting to learn the history of how the web was developed, but it was a lot of information in one chapter to retain while reading it just once.
The chapter literally described every aspect of how a web page is delivered to a browser - which is extremely useful for someone to know if they are going into web development (like me). I would have liked to see some sort of a graphic to explain everything like Apache. Also, note the Apache comment... "a patchy version of httpd". Sorry, nerd jokes.
Reading about the web metrics, I was sort of wondering how many servers there are in the world to run over 4.2 billion web pages. Over time, as the number of web pages increases, is it possible for them to ever run out of room - or servers? Or will they just learn to make the pages more compressed; if that is even possible?
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