Some websites require user registration or subscription to access content. Any website can contain a hyperlink to any other website, so the distinction between individual sites, as perceived by the user, can be blurred.
Websites can be the work of an individual, a business or other organization, and are typically dedicated to a particular topic or purpose. Websites can be used in various fashions: a personal website, a corporate website for a company, a government website, an organization website, etc. Documents were most often presented as plain text files without formatting or were encoded in word processor formats.
These protocols offer a simple directory structure which the user navigates and where they choose files to download. The World Wide Web ( Before the introduction of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), other protocols such as File Transfer Protocol and the gopher protocol were used to retrieve individual files from a server.
