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Retrieving a Web page

You retrieve pages from Web servers every day, but may not have thought about how the information gets to your computer. We'll look at that information flow in this presentation. The presentation covers no skills, but we will learn what a Web client or "browser" is and what a Web server is. The ideas of clients and servers are central to all Internet applications, and Web client programs are often referred to as Web "browsers" because we use them to browse around the Web. We'll also cover network connections, URLs, mobile clients and peer-to-peer applications.

Keywords:: peer-to-peer application, Web client (browser), mobile client, network connection, Web server, URL

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Academic Support Services / Library and Information Services / Information and Communication Technology Literacy / Information Literacy Standards

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Material Type:: Tutorial
Date Added to MERLOT:: July 22, 2011
Date Modified in MERLOT:: June 22, 2016
Author:: Larry Press, CSUDH
Submitter:: Larry Press

Primary Audience:: High School, College General Ed, College Lower Division
Mobile Compatibility:: Not specified at this time
Language:: English
Cost Involved:: No
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Creative Commons:: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States