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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,
                   hich  can  include  text  files   pictures   sounds   mo ies  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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