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- Backups
- Web hosts back up data on their servers. Many host packages offer backups every 24 hours. This is supposed to prevent the loss of data should something happen to the server.
- Bandwidth
- A data transmission rate; the maximum amount of information (bits/second) that can be transmitted along a channel.
- Broadcast
- Sending a packet to all machines on the network.
- Browser
- Computer program that allows to search the World Wide Web and displays the content of the webpages. Examples are Mosaic, Netscape, Mozilla, Opera and Internet Explorer.





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