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by rick johnson
The Internet is based on standards. The many different types of computers are able to talk to each other over the Internet because they're all playing by the same rules… A pre-designed set of standards. HTML, for example, is a text based computer language that can be written with any text editor, on any computer platform. The same HTML page may be interpreted by a different browser running on a different operating system.
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Before the Internet, it was necessary to make sure your computer and the computer you wished to communicate with were set up the same way. Today, on the Internet we can communicate with anyone without concern over the computer or setup. More...

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