LIBR 100 Lecture 1: LIBR week 1
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Often times, we use the words internet and web synonymously. The internet is a massive network of networks, a networking infrastructure. It connects millions of computers together globally, forming a network in which any computer can communicate with any other computer as long as they are both connected to the internet. Information that travels over the internet does so via a variety of languages known as protocols. The web is a way of accessing information over the medium of the internet. It is an information sharing model that is built on top of the internet. Web uses the http protocol, only one of the languages spoken over the. Web services, which use http to allow applications to communicate in order to exchange business logic, use the. The web also utilizes browsers, such as internet. Explorer or firefox, to access web documents called web pages that are linked to each other via hyperlinks.