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Remotely-accessed computer systems

Remotely-accessed computer systems

From the course: CompTIA IT Fundamentals (FC0-U61) Cert Prep 1: Computer Basics, Hardware, and Operating Systems

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Remotely-accessed computer systems

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- Once the internet became, you know, the internet and everybody and their dog could connect, clever people started creating applications that you could use over the internet. In the early days of computing, you needed to have every application local, installed on your computer. If I wanted to edit a photo on my Windows XP machine, for example, I needed to have a photo editing application installed on that computer. Queue today. You can still live and work locally, the way of the ancient pioneers of personal computing. And that's cool. You get security and stability as a reward. Or, you can get a little loosey goosey and jump into the modern era of online applications. These are apps not installed locally, but installed on remote computers. Computers on the internet that you access and use to produce stuff. The fancy term for these computers, they're technically servers, is remotely-accessed computer systems. Let…

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