A computer system that hosts websites and delivers web pages to users over the internet. It processes HTTP requests and sends back the requested content.
Compound of 'web' (from World Wide Web, coined 1990) and 'server' (from serve + -er, computing sense from 1960s). The term emerged in the early 1990s with the development of the World Wide Web.
The first web server software, created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990, was simply called 'httpd' and ran on a NeXT computer that had a sticker warning people not to turn it off because it was serving the world's first website.
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