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Topic: WWW and

Web server
World
Wide Web
History of World
Wide Web
The World Wide Web was
invented by Tim Berners-
Lee in 1989, in 1995 the
first connection was
established over what is
today known as the
Internet.
A global Web of
Definiti
on of
WWW
The World Wide
Web (WWW) is an
internet based service, which uses
common set of rules known as
Protocols, to distribute documents
across the Internet in a standard way.
The World Wide Web, or ‘Web’ is a
part of the Internet.
Diff
b e e re
tw nce
I nt ee
e r n
The Internet is known asW W W etn
“interconnection
a
of computer networks”. The Internet is nad
massive network of networks. It connects
millions of computers
together globally.
The World Wide Web is a massive collection
of digital pages to access information over
the Internet. The Web uses the HTTP protocol,
to transmit data and allows applications to
Search
Engines:

Search engines are the programs which are


needed to extract the information from the
internet. Web search engines work with the help
of two programs, Spider which fetches as many
documents as possible. Another program, called
an indexer, reads the documents and creates an
index based on the words contained in each
document.
A search engine works in the following order:
1. Web crawling: Web search engines work by storing
information about many web pages. These pages are
retrieved by the program known as Web crawler - which
follows every link on the site. Web crawler may also be
called a Web spider.
2. Indexing: Indexing also known as web indexing,
it stores data to facilitate fast and accurate information
retrieval.
3. Searching: A web search query fetches the
result from the web search engine entered by
the user to meet his information needs.
• Few search engines available are as follows:
Q1. Web search engines works with the help of two
programs. Which are they?
(a) Web crawler and Cascading Style Sheet
(b) Spider and Indexer
(c) Web server and web crawler
(d) None of the above 4.
Ans: b. (spider and indexer)
Q2. The ………….. is a massive collection of digital pages
to access information over the Internet.
Ans: WWW
Q3. Full form of WWW…….
Ans: World wide web
Web
Server
s
What is a Server?
A server is a computer that provides data to
other computers. The entire structure of the
Internet is based upon a client-server model.
Web server helps to deliver web content that
can be accessed through the Internet.
The primary job of a web
server is to deliver web
pages to clients. The
communication between
the client node and
server node takes place
using the Hypertext
Transfer Protocol (HTTP).
The delivered web pages
include images, style
sheets and scripts in
addition to text content.
A web server commonly
known as HTTP(Hyper text
transfer protocol) server or
Serve application server is a
program that serves content
r using the HTTP protocol. This
content is generally in the

Softw form of HTML (Hyper text


markup language)
documents, images, and
are other web resources, but can
include any type of file.
1. Cost Efficient: Service
Web server is the most s
cost efficient method Provide
to use, maintain and
upgrade d by
2. Resource Sharing: the
Web Server has the Servers
capability to store
unlimited information
such as Google Drives,
3. Data Sharing: With the help of web
servers one can easily access the
information from anywhere, where there
is an Internet connection using Google
docs such as Documents, Excel sheets,
Drawings, Power-point presentations
etc.
4. Backup and Recovery: the entire
process of backup and recovery much
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server
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DNS
server
Types of Servers
1. Mail Server: Mail Servers provides a
centrally-located pool of disk space for
network users to store and share various
documents in the form of emails.
2. Application Server: An application
server acts as a set of components
accessible to the software developer
through an API defined by the platform
itself.
3. File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Server: FTP uses
separate control and data connections between the
client and the server.
4. Database Server: A database server is a
computer program that provides database services
to other computer programs or computers using
client-server model.
5. Domain Name System (DNS) Server: A name
server is a computer server that hosts a network
service for providing responses to queries. It maps
a numeric identification or addressing component.
Let’s recall
Q1. A …………. is a computer that provides data to
other computers.
Ans: Server
Q2. Web server is the most cost efficient method to
use, maintain and upgrade. (True/False)
Ans: True
Q3. ………uses separate control and data connections
between the client and the server.
a. FTP b. DNS c.
database
Ans: FTP
Q4. Full form of HTTP…….
Q1. List all the
popular search
Hom
engines in the market.
Q2. Full form of
DNS e
FTP
Q3. Name any two
work
services provided by
the servers.

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