Last year Google conducted a survey in Times Square asking people one simple question: "What is a browser?" The response was quite an eye opener because less than 8% answered correctly. (Check out the video below)
In order to educate an average person about browsers and web Google has launched an interactive eBook: 20 Things I Learned.
A short book that explains the web with a humorous approach covering topics like:
- What is the Internet?
- Web Apps.
- HTML5
- Browser Extensions
- Browser Cookies
- IP addresses and DNS
- Privacy
- Plug-ins
Illustrated by Christoph Niemann, this guide is a wonderful approach to let people know about things that they use everyday but perhaps don't understand it much.
Google shares that "Life as citizens of the web can be liberating and empowering, but also deserves some self-education. Just as we'd want to know various basic facts as citizens of our physical neighborhoods - water safety, key services, local businesses - it's increasingly important to understand a similar set of information about our online lives. That's the spirit in which we wrote this guide."
Did we mention that this eBook is available for free? Click here to read "20 Things I Learned".
And now the video:
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