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 WORLD-INFOSTRUCTURE > WHAT IS THE INTERNET
  1. What is the Internet?
  2. How the Internet works
  3. Acessing the Internet
  4. Internet services
  5. Operating the net: overview
  6. Who owns the Internet and who is in charge?
  7. Internet, Intranets, Extranets, and Virtual Private Networks
  8. In Search of Reliable Internet Measurement Data
  9. Global Data Flows
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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.