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The World Wide Web

The World Wide Web

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The World Wide Web

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- Ah, the World Wide Web. I can't tell you how many times I've gone up to a user's system who says, "The internet's down "and it's just because their web browser's messed up." And I tell them, "Oh, the internet's working just fine. "In fact, your connection to the internet "is working just fine. "You're just having a problem with a web browser." The World Wide Web has certainly become the predominant way that most of us look at the internet. Now, the World Wide Web is always going to manifest as some kind of web browser. And these names have become famous with names like Chrome and Firefox and Edge and Safari. These web clients are on every operating system and most operating systems have multiple choices when it comes to these types of tools. Now, the protocol that's running underneath it is either going to be HTTP, which runs on port 80, or HTTP secure, HTTPS, which runs on port 443. So if you're going to be making connections, you're going to have outbound on port 80. If it's…

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