Basic HTML version of Foils prepared May 3 97

Foil 26 The World Wide Web is a collection of clients and servers called browsers and Web sites

From Introduction to Architecture of World Wide Web Professional Web Certificate -- April - August 97. by Nancy J. McCracken
Web servers provide access to a collection of files containing hyperlinked information
  • primary service is to send text files, images, digitized video
  • can also provide customized services through the form/CGI script interface
Browsers provide an easy graphical interface for users to request information. The client machine also provides viewers for a standard set of image and video formats.
The interface is kept very simple to run on all networks and most machines.

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