A Web server uses software to provide World Wide Web services on the Internet. Wed server software uses TCP/IP protocols and the Web site content to allow the user access to the Web site. A Web server works on the client/server principle and provides a specific service of giving out Web pages to clients called Web browsers. Web servers have a unique IP address and directly connect to the Internet. Web servers run as a background application listening for any connection request, generally from Web browsers, at port 80, which is a reserved and standard port for Web servers. ...

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Two other notable events this year include the release of ARCHIE by Peter Deutsch, Alan Emtage, and Bill Heelan at McGill, and the first remotely controlled machine to be linked to the Internet; a toaster (controlled by SNMP). 1991 was the year what WAIS (Wide Area Information Servers), was released by Brewster Kahle, of Thinking Machines Corporation; Paul Lindner and Mark P. McCahill released Gopher from the University of Minnesota, and most notably, World-Wide Web was released by Tim Berners-Lee of CERN. ... So in 1995, the first Internet based shopping mall was opened on the World Wide Web....

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The Internet, like its former early twentieth century counterpart the radio, is quite literally, a network of networks. Both, at their primes, comprised of tens of thousands of interconnected networks spanning the globe. Millions of people worldwide use both the internet and the radio as a means ...

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Ethernet While working at Xerox PARC, Bob Metcalfe and D.R. Boggs developed Ethernet beginning in 1972 and specifications based on this work appeared in IEEE 802.3 in 1980. Ethernet specifications define low-level data transmission protocols and the technology needed to support them. In the OSI m...

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It erasers the distance between people through e-mails, voice chat and the web camera, Free services such as Hotmail and Yahoo mail are extremely popular with consumers and small business owners and all areas of work and entertainment. ... Contrary to the above problems, children can get a wide variety of information worldwide. ...

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