That’s right, there is no such thing as a website, no HTML, no HTTP, no Web Design. Websites do not exist, you can’t hold one in your hands. You can hold a computer or a disk drive but that is not the web site.
Looking at the computer screen we see images, lines, shapes and colors in a complex combination that we can interpret and act upon. These images are projected to use via our monitors which process electrical signals from the computer and interpret them as the colors and hues etc… These electrical signals from the computer come from pieces of hardware that have themselves interpreted a separate set of electrical signals, processed them, then spit them out to the monitor. The electrical signals coming to the computer hardware can come from many different places including the internet or other software/hardware combinations on the local machine.
Within the computer, processing is managed by several things including the CPU chip. Data is passed around processed and sent out… or is it. Actually, a simplified but closer version would be that electrical pulses are received and interpreted then stored for use. In order for data to be stored or processed the sequence of electrical pulses is read and converted into 0s and 1s, computer language. These 1s and 0s are stored on tiny little nubs of silicon that live on processors, a polarized bit is a 1 and an un-polarized bit a 0 . Huge sequences silicon bits, with electrical pulses traveling around changing the sequence of positive and negative polarization in groups of 32 or 64.
So wheres your website now?
We have computers and telephones, ears and eyes, but the actual information that they are witnessing is elusive, ethereal. Cool huh?
