A server is just a computer that sits on a network waiting for clients to ask for things. It talks to the world through its network cable, it thus does not normally need a screen or keyboard. It is not the computer, but the programs running on the server that wait for client programs to ask for things. Many different server programs can be running at once and a server can thus be responding to many kinds of requests (of course the more that are running the more possible security holes there are). The server can respond to multiple requests quickly and simultaneously. Servers generally store data and clients ask for it, edit it and add to it.
Almost all computers today are connected by the internet. Vast storehouses of information are out there on servers and we access them using a web browser like Netscape, Opera, Firefox or Internet Explorer. Increasingly we are not just looking up information on the internet but controlling it as we do our banking, buying and selling, shopping, trip planning and booking, etc on these servers. The kind of computer we have is not as important anymore, as long as it runs a nice web browser.
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