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Foil 3 What is the World Wide Web?

From Untitled presentation Jamesvill DeWitt Middle School 5th Grade -- 2 April 97. by Geoffrey C. Fox
The WWW = the World Wide Web is more or less the same as:
  • The Internet
  • The National Information Infrastructure or NII
  • The Digital SuperHighway
It is the Digital connection between computers around the world
The Internet/WWW consists of Phone Lines or POTS (PLain Old Telephone System). "twisted pair", cable, optical fiber, satellites, cellular phone, wireless
  • These use "protocols" like TCP/IP ATM Ethernet etc
  • Different approachs have different trade-offs: speed, cost, reliability etc.

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