Background to the Web

The web was initially very successful due to its simplicity

Client

Netscape

IE

Lynx

HTML

Server

Apache

IIS

...

Give me foo.htmlfrom www.bath.ac.uk

Here it is

The web is based on three key architectural components:

Data Format: HTML (HyperText Markup Language)

Addressing: URLs (Uniform Resource Locators)
Transport: HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)

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