Chapter One

Honestly, the first aspect that really jumped out to me was the fact that they used Microsoft Edge in the text, but they didn’t even have a mention of the HTTPS protocol; granted, the former came out in 2015 (apparently) while the latter wasn’t implemented in mass until 2018, but it still caught me a bit off-guard. Why not at least mention its existence, especially since it did gain some traction around the rise of Chrome? Regardless, the entire opening chapter feels like a microdosed advertisement about Microsoft Edge, considering the entire section about “Advanced Edge Features” which are just standard functionality, such as searching in the address bar or reading view; the annotation part was notably innovative for the time, though.

On a more positive note, it’s nice to learn about how Incognito or other private browsing can be tracked outside the vague warnings of who can see this when initiating it: a server-side program designed to catch all traffic on the network; granted, it is a single line that doesn’t really go in depth, but it’s more than the standard. Outside that, it all came up as basics of using a webpage and the basic concepts of a network and HTML. It’s comprehensive enough I’m considering giving it to my stepdad, so he can understand computers in a more digestible way than my over-the-shoulder explanations.