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Unit 14: Web Server Applications

Notes
Between 1991 and 1994 the simplicity and effectiveness of early technologies used to surf
and exchange data through the World Wide Web helped to port them to many different
operating systems and spread their use among lots of different social groups of people,
first in scientific organizations, then in universities and finally in industry.

Figure 14.1: The World’s First Web Server

In 1994 Tim Berners-Lee decided to constitute the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
to regulate the further development of the many technologies involved (HTTP, HTML,
etc.) through a standardization process.
Questions:

1. Who is the founder of Web server?
2. Explain the web server.

14.6 Summary

• The Web server have such feature like Web sorting, Web working.

• A Web server can be referred to as other the hardware (the computer) or the software
that helps to deliver content.
• Internet telephony use in web server.

• E-mail application is used Web Server.
• Videoconferencing differs from video phone calls in that it is designed to save a
conference ratter than individuals.

• The hardware or software that performs compression is called a codec (coder/decoder).

14.7 Keywords

E-mail: Electronic mail, commonly called email, is a method of exchanging digital messages
from an author to one or more recipients.
Instant Messaging (IM): Instant messaging is a form of real time direct text based
communication between two or more people using personal computers or other devices,
along with shared elients.
Internet Telephony: It is a category of hardware and software that enables people to use the
Internet as the transmission medium for telephone calls.

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