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Monday, March 16, 2009

World Wide Web

The World Wide Web or the Web is a component of the Internet that provides access to large amounts of information located on many different servers. The Web also provides access to many of the services available on the Internet.
The fundamental unit of the Web is the Web page. The Web page is a text document that contains links to other Web pages, graphic and audio files, and other Internet services such as file transfer protocol (FTP) and E-mail.
Web pages reside on servers that run special software that allow users to access Web pages and to activate links to other Web pages and to Internet services. Tens of thousands of Web servers are currently connected to the Internet. A user can directly access any Web page on one of these servers and then follow the links to other pages. This process creates a Web of links around the world and, thus, the name World Wide Web.

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