The text you are currently reading is contained within a page or document . A document can be in textual only, perhaps contaning images, or might support an interactive search facility. However, there is a lot of free software available in relation to the Web. The software that you are running in order to read this document is defined as a client . It is also termed as a Web browser by the WWW community of users.
Various browsers exist for various machines and operating systems.
Dept Users will be using Mosaic for Windows. Servers Web browsers retrieve documents from a source known as a server . Web servers are machines which run the WWW server software that has been implemented onto it. Server software is available for various machines and operating systems. There are many WWW servers set up across the globe, containing information on all kinds of subjects from academia to recreational.