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<h4>World Wide Web:</h4>
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 The World Wide Web is the global computer network comprised of Web pages written in <a href="HTML">HTML</a> which link to each other. The components of the Web are stored by seperate <a href="ISP">Internet Service Providers</a> on large hard drives.
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 <a href="Client">Clients</a> access the Web by instructing <a href="Server">Servers</a>, usually at the computers of <a href="ISP">Internet Service Providers</a>, to fetch pages, either directly (if the file is at the <a href="ISP">Service Provider</a> or by <a href="Proxy">Proxy</a> (if the file is at another <a href="ISP">Service Provider</a>).
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