How

Wellingtons rugged southwest,
photos by Barbara Mitcalfe

How does it do it?

• Web 101
  • server (hardware) - a computer run by WCN
    • server (software - Apache), script - PmWiki (and language - PHP)
  • client (hardware) - your PC or laptop
    • browsers - Opera, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, etc ...
  • internet
    • protocols tcp/ip (5 layers: physical, data link, internet, transport, application), http
• want to know more, try How stuff works
• uses content management (wiki) software
• WCN - hosted by Wellington Community net
• Other wikis - around the world
• new pages? - based on (templates)
• recent changes - a list of pages that have been changed
• history - the actual changes made on a page