About Wirebook

Wirebook is a small, free set of lessons about how the web works, built to be hands-on and honest.

Privacy

• No cookies, no tracking analytics, no ads, no third-party scripts or fonts.
• We keep one anonymous daily tally of views per page, plus the domain of a site that linked here (for example a search engine). No cookies, IP addresses or browser details are stored, so no visitor can be told apart or followed.
• Everything you type in a lesson stays in your browser. The only requests to the server are the ones a button tells you about (round-trip timing, status-code demos) and the live server stats, and none of them carry anything you typed.
• Your stamps are kept in your browser's local storage. Clear them any time from the stamp book.
• To show a NEW flag and a "new since your last visit" shelf on the home page, your browser remembers the date of your last visit in local storage. It is never sent to us.
• The server keeps no access logs. The "requests in the last minute" figure is a plain counter that forgets after 60 seconds.

How it's built

A tiny Python program on a one-processor server serves plain HTML, CSS and a little JavaScript. Pages are under 30 KB. The live numbers come from the same machine and from the public status page.

Accessibility

Every interactive part works with a keyboard, animations respect your "reduce motion" setting, and colours meet contrast guidelines in light and dark mode.