Some technologies are technologies we take for granted. I remember my family were a little late to the game in getting connected to the internet, and it was only in 2003, when I was 14, that we actually got the internet at home.
Before that time, I essentially thought of the internet as being one technology, useful only for acquiring cheat codes for Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2 on PS1 and our dearly departed MSN Messenger.
As for how websites were loaded, it was just a given — you type in the address of a website and it loads. A website has an address, and that’s the end of it.
Of course, that’s not the end of it.
The internet of course is a collection of different technologies that work together to provide a worldwide electronic network, which can be used to send data for a whole host of other technologies, the most prevalent being the World Wide Web (serving websites over the HTTP protocol), e-mail and FTP.
There’s one technology that could easily be taken for granted, at least if you’ve not set up your own website before — DNS.
It’s the service that lets you load a website by typing a domain name into the address bar of your web browser.
It’s also the service that ensures that e-mails sent to your e-mail address are sent to the servers your mail provider has created your mailboxes on.
Students of the Complete Web Developer course and non-students alike, listen up. Here are the essential facts you need to know about DNS.
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