Before the Internet and the world wide web came along, this balkanised model was also the norm online.

在互联网和万维网之前，这种巴尔干模式也属于网上的规范。

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For example, when a person at home accesses a page on the World Wide Web, the same model is employed, with the remote Web server being the server and the user's personal computer being the client.

例如，一个人在家登入万维网时，就是使用这种模型，其中，远程的网页服务器是该模型中的服务器，而用户的个人电脑是该模型中的客户。

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