| 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.
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