Re: where is all the data of the internet stored?

Date: Mon Sep 14 16:12:08 1998
Posted By: Dan Berger, Faculty Chemistry/Science, Bluffton College
Area of science: Computer Science
ID: 903843382.Cs

Message:

where is all the data of the internet stored?

The Internet is not one big computer sitting somewhere. It is a communication system between lots and lots of computers, small, big and medium-sized. The data of the internet is stored on individual computers, called servers; for example, my web pages at http://cs.bluffton.edu/~berger/ are stored on a machine called cs.bluffton.edu, in a directory abbreviated "~berger".

In general, the data contained in an individual page is stored on the computer named in the first part of the URL; however, because pages can contain links to other pages (on other computers) a page can link to much more data than could possibly be stored on one computer.

	Dan Berger
	Bluffton College
	http://cs.bluffton.edu/~berger

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