3 World-Wide Web and the Internet

3.6 How does the Web work?

3.6.2 Client-Server example

a) Running a Web client (also called a browser), user selects a hyperlink to another text -- The History of Computers.
b) Web client connects to computer specified by a network address somewhere on the Internet and asks that computer's Web server for "The History of Computers".
c) Server responds by sending text and any other media within that text (pictures, sounds, or movies) to user's screen.
World-Wide Web composed of thousands (millions?) of these virtual transactions taking place per hour throughout world
Creates a web of information flow