I think you want the basics of networking as it relates to the World Wide Web. So let's start at the bottom of the stack and go all the way up to a webpage: h

I think you want the basics of networking as it relates to the World Wide Web. So let's start at the bottom of the stack and go all the way up to a webpage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_switching http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_switching http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Protocol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Protocol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Datagram_Protocol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Datagram_Protocol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client_server http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client_server http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Http http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Http http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_script http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_script http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-process_communication http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-process_communication http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorythm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorythm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_%28programming_language%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_%28programming_language%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sql http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sql http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well_known_ports http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well_known_ports http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_page_rank http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_page_rank There are good links at the ends of these articles. If you can remember some of the history of these various technologies and mention it in an interview it could be the deciding factor for a nerd to give you the job :-)