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What is the Internet?
How the Internet works
Acessing the Internet
Internet services
Operating the net: overview
Who owns the Internet and who is in charge?
Internet, Intranets, Extranets, and Virtual Private Networks
In Search of Reliable Internet Measurement Data
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Server
A server is program, not a computer, as it sometimes said, dedicated to store files, manage printers and network traffic, or process database queries.
Web sites, the nodes of the
World Wide Web (WWW)
, e.g., are stored on servers.