World Wide Web
Factoid: “WWW” is not short for “World Wide Web”
The world wide web is composed of those computers, called web servers, capable of sending information to your browser, e.g. Netscape or IE
In 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
There are different ways to connect to these servers
- Hyper-text transfer protocol, http for web pages
- File transfer protocol, ftp for files of information