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The
world wide web is composed of those
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computers,
called web servers, capable of sending
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information
to your browser, e.g. Netscape or IE
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In
most domains the computer that is the web server
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is
called “www”, e.g. www.washington.edu
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But,
a web server can have any name … your pages will
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served by students.washington.edu
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The
actual pages will be stored somewhere else, e.g.
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Dante
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There
are different ways to connect to these servers
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Hyper-text
transfer protocol, http for web pages
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File
transfer protocol, ftp for files of information
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