Foreword
In 1991, Tim Berners-Lee launched the world’s first website, which ran on a program he named the WorldWideWeb. Two years later, he would release the source code for the WorldWideWeb and the world itself would never be the same. You can still see that first web page at info.cern.ch.
Since 1991, the web has experienced unprecedented popularity. At 24 years old, it’s still the most widely used technology in the world. It runs on all operating systems, all hardware platforms, and nearly all mobile devices in some form or fashion. The program that makes this all possible is the almighty web browser.
Traditionally, web browsers were simply middlemen. They would fetch data from a server, display it, take data back to the server, and get ...
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