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Overview of technology

The World Wide Web is a networked information service based on Internet protocols and shares many characteristics of other such services.

• Network concepts
• Web server concepts
  • The MIME Standard
  • The Hypertext Transfer Protocol
• Web server components

Spinning the Web by Andrew Ford
© 1995 International Thomson Publishing
© 2002 Andrew Ford and Ford & Mason Ltd
Note: this HTML document was generated in December 1994 directly from the LaTeX source files using LaTeX2HTML. It was formatted into our standard page layout using the Template Toolkit. The document is mainly of historical interest as obviously many of the sites mentioned have long since disappeared.