What is the Web?
Explore the fundamental structure of the web, understanding how it connects devices worldwide. Learn the roles of physical, data link, network, transport, and application layers in facilitating communication between clients and servers across the internet.
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The web, simply put, is a network spread across the globe that connects a multitude of devices and allows them to communicate with one another. Websites on the Internet are hosted on devices referred to as servers, and when you’re interacting with a webpage on the Internet, what you’re essentially doing is exchanging data with the server that the website is hosted on. The device that you’re accessing the webpage using is referred to as the client in the context of the web. In short, the web enables the exchange of data between clients and servers through several elaborate mechanisms.
Network layers
Since the web is an immensely intricate and widespread network, machines within the network are ...