A wobbly guide to the web
Make a web page, then send it round the world.
Every web page is a text file that crosses the planet in less than a second. Find out how, write your own page, and put it on the internet for real. Best after Jelly Shell and Jelly Git.
Grab a letter. Squish it. Fling it.
The big picture · 1 of 2
The whole game
Follow one web page, gerbil.zone, from your screen to a server far away and back. Press Next. Drag to spin it, scroll to zoom, double-click to straighten up.
The big picture · 2 of 2
Press Enter, then peek backstage
Someone types an address into the browser. Then it flips around, and you see the crew that fetches and builds the page.
Front: the browser
JELLY-SCREEN 3000
Backstage
THE BROWSER WINDOW
DNS PHONEBOOK
ROUTER
THE SERVER
Ready? Press Enter on your keyboard (or click the yellow key) and watch the crew fetch a web page.
Burn this into your brain
kid@jelly: ~
Saved as you type
- The story
- Remember it
- Mission
Wrap up