This is really well done. :) Textbook hierarchical explanation.
I had a conversation with some family members recently in which I explained (in much less detail) how the web works, and I found that they were having trouble grasping exactly what web pages are.
After some hemming and hawing, I was finally able to construct a simple analogy that rang true with them: web pages are files a lot like Microsoft Word documents, the major difference being that you usually use one particular kind of program to read them (browsers) and another kind of program to create them, whereas with Word, the reader and viewer are the same thing.
I had a conversation with some family members recently in which I explained (in much less detail) how the web works, and I found that they were having trouble grasping exactly what web pages are.
After some hemming and hawing, I was finally able to construct a simple analogy that rang true with them: web pages are files a lot like Microsoft Word documents, the major difference being that you usually use one particular kind of program to read them (browsers) and another kind of program to create them, whereas with Word, the reader and viewer are the same thing.