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Internet as the major vehicle in networking industry
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Driving force: information access and dissemination
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WWW: Internet navigation and multimedia information access --- a killer networking application
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Main WWW components today:
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HTTP: the transport protocol
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HTML: the makeup language
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CGI: an interface to extend HTTP and HTML
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Fill-Out Form: a set of HTML constructs to allow clients passing run-time input data to server through GUI interface
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Client-server as the communication model
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(Flat hierarchical UNIX) File system as the major file (data) management system
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Focus on transparent networking navigation and a graphical user-interface for hypertext-based information dissemination
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