Re: websites: public vs private information?

In response to the fascinating explanation by Barry Caplan of how bits and pieces of [?code?] come together, through some magical confluence, when I visit a Website, to form an image [?synthesized? ?distilled?] and presented to me by my browser:

I ask as not only not a techie but barely a *sub*techie (and a confused one at that): But surely the discrete elements existed somewhere, fixed on some hard drive? If I'm reading, say, a Slate article: someone wrote that article, and the words do exist in the author's computer, no? Similarly, the page layout? And the type specs? And didn't someone have to bring it all together, somewhere, before tossing it all out there for my browser to pick up? Is there not some employee of Slate who, prior to making all these elements available to me and the rest of the public, put it all together first, and doubtless filed -- *fixed* -- the result on a computer owned by the magazine?

Please comment further, Barry?

--Dodi Schultz
  <schultz[_at_]compuserve.com> Received on Tue Jun 06 2000 - 07:23:05 GMT