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Information on the Web is stored in the form of Web pages. A Web page is a hypertext
document. A collection of related web pages is called a website. Websites are housed on
Web servers. A Web server is an Internet host computer that often stores thousands of
individual Web pages. Copying a Web page onto a server is called publishing the Web page.
This process is also called posting or uploading.
How does the Web Work?
Web documents can be linked together because they are created in a format known as
hypertext. Hypertext system provides an easy way to manage large collections of data,
which can include text files, pictures, sounds, movies and more. To support hypertext
documents, the Web uses a special protocol, called the Hypertext Transfer Protocol
(HTTP). The language allows a document’s author to embed hypertext links, also called
hyperlinks or just links, in the document. HTTP and hypertext links are the foundations of
the World Wide Web.
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