Loud and Proud! At the Web site for the National Hollerin' Contest in Spivey's Corner, N.C., you'll get the chance to celebrate the great folk culture from this part of the country. Twist and shout at www.ibiblio.org/hollerin. The holler has been found to exist in Europe, Africa and Asia. Be sure to download the different types of hollers, from the danger holler to the ranching call to the good old-fashioned "howdy neighbor!" Listen up for all the hoots, howls and yells from the contest. Heeee-hawwww!
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1. When did the National Hollerin' Contest begin?
Dear Amy: What do World Wide Web servers do?--Luis, Mesa, Ariz. Dear Luis: A Web server is a program that runs on a computer connected to the Internet. When a browser (a client application like Netscape) requests a document (like a Web page), the server sends it to the browser. The browser formats the page according to the HTML code. Servers do other things, too. They record the activities requested of them and determine who has permission to access files. They also connect to other programs called CGIs that could take data from an online form and send back information.