World Wide Web
Two computers on the cloud talk to each other
The Web consists of several evolving standards
- Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
- Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
- Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
Clients use the HTTP protocol to retrieve HTML pages from URL's on a Server and
to send data back to the server. NCSA Mosaic is one of the best-known client programs.
Servers send pages of HTML to the client, and send MIME data such as multimedia or application
files. Servers can also send forms to be filled-in, and can process the data that is returned.
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