When The Web Was Command Line

Well, we live in a world of GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces), but underneath you are likely to find that it's basically just using a command line interface. For example, when a browser wants a page, it just sends a “GET /mypage.html” command and gets the page back as a response. This response contains lots of headers that contain extra information, but which are often stripped off, and then the main content is rendered in the browser…