CS 10051 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Eric Bina, Hypertext Transfer Protocol, Browser Wars
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Able to access anything off the server if you have the address (url) Took out the middle man of having to email. Actually started sharing it for free in 1991. Internet and email existed so this was different. We legit still use html that this dude made. University of illinois (national center for supercomputing association) Http (hyper text transfer protocol) - set of communication sent between a client and a server. Html (hyper text markup langue)- defines the form of a webpage content. Tells the computer how to make the page look. Software changes over time to make it easier file:// means its local. Don"t ha(cid:448)e to go (cid:396)e(cid:395)uest the enti(cid:396)e (cid:449)ebpage again. People go to more than one page on a site.