HTTP is the protocol of the Web, and HTTP server software, such as Microsoft's IIS and the open source Apache server, accepts requests from the user's browser and responds by sending back HTML ...

(1) (WorldWideWeb) The first Web browser, written by Tim Berners Lee and introduced in early 1991. It ran on the NeXT platform, which was also used as the first Web server. See NeXT. (2 ...

So, me popping into a shop is like me accessing the content from a website that's hosted on a web server. But of course ... a piece of software called a web browser. This web browser sends ...