Basics of the Web

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Internet machine
________ is assigned a unique address, which is called an IP address.
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DNS servers
________ (cumulatively) are processing billions of requests across the internet at any given time.
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HTTP protocol
________ used for transmission of files between servers and clients.
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IPV4
Each number in a(n) ________ number is called an "octet "because it's a base10 equivalent of an 8- digit base- 2 (binary) number used in routing network traffic.
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millions of host
A given domain can potentially contain ________ names as long as they 're all unique to that domain.
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online user
Typing in a long IP address is not ideal, or practical, for a(n) ________ to navigate quickly across the Network.
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Each digit in the binary number is the placeholder for a certain power of two from 2 to ________, reading from right to left.
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domain name
A subdomain is a subdivision of a(n) ________, allowing you to put content in your URL before your namespace.
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Server applications
________ can be run by PCs, Macintoshes, UNIX workstations and even single terminals.
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browser
The ________ makes a HTTP request to the IP address.
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EDU
________- restricted to schools and educational organizations.
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URL
Computers remember numbers, and DNS helps to translate the ________ to an IP address that the machine can use.
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DNS
________ is concerned with a domain name being translated into the appropriate IP address.
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numeral strings
Words are easier to remember than ________.
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IP
It acts as a(n) ________ address directory service.
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Country code TLDs
________ represents specific geographic locations.
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billions of IP
There are ________ addresses currently in use, and most machines have a human- readable name as well.
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domain name
A(n) ________ is part of a URL, which stands for Uniform Resource Locator.
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URL
________ is the abbreviation for Uniform Resource Locator and is known on the World Wide Web as the global address of documents and other resources.
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IP
Computers rely on a language consisting of numbers and letters called a(n) ________ address, so that computer networks and servers can "speak to each other ..
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Servers that can also be PCs, Macintosh systems or workstations from UNIX
it is the server software that makes them different, not the machine itself
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Another significant thing about servers
they are comparatively hard to set up
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If you're a non
technical person who wants to be published on the Internet, it's best to rent some room on someone else's site
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Among other Internet services, HTTP has its counterparts
FTP, file transfer protocol, and Gopher are protocols which obtain different kinds of information from across the Internet
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Web browsers normally prepend http
/ to user-entered URIs automatically, if omitted
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So looks a standard IP address
199.123.456.7
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An IP address in the IPV4 standard has four numbers separated by three decimals, as in
70.74.251.42
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There are only 256 possibilities for the value of each octet
the numbers 0 through 255
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For example
.in represents India
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COM
commercial websites, though open to everyone
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NET
network websites, though open to everyone
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ORG
non-profit organization websites, though open to everyone
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EDU
restricted to schools and educational organizations
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MIL
restricted to the U.S. military
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GOV
restricted to the U.S. government
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US, UK, RU and other two-letter country codes
each is assigned to a domain name authority in the respective country
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For example
If a customer buys a domain with 123 Reg,
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