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Clients, servers, and sites

On the Web, information is stored at Web

sites.

Access to the information at a Web site is

managed by a Web server for the site.

Users access the information using a Web

client, which is also called a browser.

How information is stored: HTML

Information on the Web is stored in

documents, using a language named HTML

(HyperText Markup Language).

Web clients interpret HTML and display the

documents to a user. The protocol that

governs the exchange of information

between the Web server and Web client is

named HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol).