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Volume 15, Number 02
PC Pulse - The top 10 terms from the last week
The Difference Between the Internet and World Wide Web
Facebook Trivia Hint!
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Terms of the Day
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Server Virtualization: 10 Reasons to Invest
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PC Pulse
Here are the top 10 terms our users were interested in last week: - URL
- CPU
- OEM
- spyware
- SSL
- cloud computing
- router
- SAN
- SSID
- MPLS
The Difference Between the Internet and World Wide Web Many people use the terms Internet and World Wide Web (aka. the Web) interchangeably, but in fact the two terms are not synonymous. The Internet and the Web are two separate but related things.
What is The Internet?
The Internet is a massive network of networks, a networking infrastructure. It connects millions of computers together globally, forming a network in which any computer can communicate with any other computer as long as they are both connected to the Internet. Information that travels over the Internet does so via a variety of languages known as protocols.
What is The Web (World Wide Web)?
The World Wide Web, or simply Web, is a way of accessing information over the medium of the Internet. It is an information-sharing model that is built on top of the Internet. The Web uses the HTTP protocol, only one of the languages spoken over the Internet, to transmit data. Web services, which use HTTP to allow applications to communicate in order to exchange business logic, use the the Web to share information. The Web also utilizes browsers, such as Internet Explorer or Firefox, to access Web documents called Web pages that are linked to each other via hyperlinks. Web documents also contain graphics, sounds, text and video.
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Server Virtualization: 10 Reasons to Invest
This Top 10 list of reasons to invest in server virtualization are aimed at the system administrators and virtualization administrator. Sever virtualization: it saves money, it's green technology and it decreases the number of physical servers needed. These are just a few of the reasons why virtualization is such a hot technology topic in the IT industry. System administrators and virtualization administrators who manage those environments also consider virtualization to be a hot technology but for different reasons. Kenneth Hess explains why in this server virtualization Top 10 list on ServerWatch. Learn more about server virtualization in this Webopedia Quick Reference article.
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