Clients
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NCSA Mosaic and Commercial Versions
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Netscape
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Others include Gopher, Cello, Viola, and IBM / Microsoft browsers embedded in PC operating systems
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Servers
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The CERN Server was first but
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The NCSA HTTP Server is small and optimized for high network load
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Others include Plexus which is a PERL based Server
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Protocols
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URL -- Universal Resource Locator -- A uniform world-wide addressing mode for computing resources
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HTTP -- Hypertext Transport Protocol -- A query script sent from browser to server which contains both the URL and a method which is currently GET or POST
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HTML -- Hypertext Markup Language -- Hypermedia document description language which is sent from Server to Client
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CGI -- Common Gateway Interface -- is a uniform mechanism to escape from Web Server to further programs on the server side
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