Before 1993 all of the websites in the world were listed on a hand written piece of paper which was then used to update one of the servers.
[/sayit][sayit block=”1″ lang=”en-GB” speed=”1″]Servers are computers which have websites on them, and every time you connect to a website, your computer asks a server for a copy of the website, which the server then sends to your computer so that you can see it.
[/sayit][sayit block=”1″ lang=”en-GB” speed=”1″]With the growing number of website out there, writing the websites down by hand was no longer a feasible way of doing things.
[/sayit][sayit block=”1″ lang=”en-GB” speed=”1″]This is where search engines help, they look directly at the websites on all the available servers, and figures out which one is the one you want.
[/sayit][sayit block=”1″ lang=”en-GB” speed=”1″]This meant that all the websites didn’t need to be recorded on one list and the internet could continue to grow quickly.
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