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OCR: -12 THE INTERNET Inte rnet Multi imedia CanI listen to music and play videos on the Web? Iit's hard to imagine that less than five vears ago Web pages contained Oorr text Now, Web pages include multimedia elements such as sound animation and video. A media element is stored on the Web server in a file When you. click a Web page to play media element the Web server sends copy of the media file to your computer This can happen in one of two ways depending on how the Web server has been set up In one case the Web serv e sends you the entire media file before starting to play For large video files You might wait tive minutes or more before the video begins play A newer technology. sometimes referred to as streaming media, sends a small segment of the media file to your computer and begins to p ...