| Moving files
(like pictures of 'N Sync or videos of wrestlers) from a site on the
Internet like Yahoo! to your personal homepage or computer.
Downloading is the transmission
of a file from one computer system to another, usually smaller
computer system. From the Internet user's point-of-view, to download
a file is to request it from another computer (or from a Web page on
another computer) and to receive it.
Uploading is transmission in
the other direction: from one, usually smaller computer to another
computer. From an Internet user's point-of-view, uploading is
sending a file to a computer that is set up to receive it. People
who share images with others on bulletin board systems (BBS) upload
files to the BBS. |
