FIT 100
© Copyright University of
Washington 1999-2000
Factoid:
“WWW” is not short for “World Wide Web”
World Wide Web
vThe world wide web
is composed of those computers, called web servers, capable of sending information to
your browser, e.g. Netscape or IE
vIn most domains the
computer that is the web server is called “www”, e.g. www.washington.edu
;But, a web server
can have any name … your pages will be served by
students.washington.edu
;The actual pages will be
stored somewhere else, e.g. Dante
vThere are different
ways to connect to these servers
;Hyper-text transfer protocol,
http for web pages
;File transfer protocol, ftp for files of information