GOOGLE RELEASES CHILDREN'S BOOK ON BROWSERS AND THE WEB FOR FREE

Wondering how to explain the brave new world of Web 2.0 and HTML5 to your children… or simply want to correct your own childlike understanding of how the internet works? Search giant Google has just the picture book for you… and best of all, it’s both free and charming.

The book is called 20 Things I Learned About Browsers And The Web

Sure, we all use the internet every day, and most of us are pretty astute with it… but it’s surprising how little many know about the inner workings of the web behinds its various sites and interfaces.

As such, 20 Things I Learned About Browsers And The Web is a breath of fresh air, offering eminently understandable primers about HTML, Javascript and Ajax. It’s also a future-looking book, spelling out many of the developments we can expect next from both browsers and web apps. Even security, privacy, open source and design are touched upon.

The book reads like a picture book written as a Christmas present from the Google Chrome team to its children, and in fact it is: the collective Chrome team is the book’s author, and we — the users — are their children. [Geek]