7. What's FTP? What's WWW? What's a URL? (alt.comedy.british)
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This article is from the British comedy FAQ, by James Kew j.kew@ic.ac.uk with numerous contributions by others.
7. What's FTP? What's WWW? What's a URL? (alt.comedy.british)
FTP stands for "File Transfer Protocol", a method of transferring files
between computers over the Internet. It usually refers to "anonymous FTP",
where access is granted to anyone who gives a username of "anonymous". For
more information see the Anonymous FTP FAQ, posted regularly to
news.newusers.questions, news.announce.newusers and news.answers, amongst
other groups. The latest version is archived at:
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/usenet/news.answers/ftp-list/
It can also be retrieved by email by sending a message to
mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with a body of:
send usenet/news.answers/ftp-list/faq
WWW stands for "World Wide Web". WWW is a distributed hypermedia system, in
which documents residing on servers all over the world may be linked
together so you can move effortlessly from one document to another. For
more information see the WWW FAQ, posted frequently to, amogst others,
comp.infosystems.www.users and news.answers, and other groups, or fetch it
from:
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/usenet/news.answers/www/faq/
A URL is a Universal Resource Locator -- an electronic street address that
describes exactly where a resource is and how to access it. URLs follow the
general form:
protocol://host.name/path/to/directory/or/file
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