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Help me with my education. I'm just a lowly 4th year SWE major and we haven't covered definitions of servers yet.

Webster's says: > a computer in a network that is used to provide services (such as access to files or shared peripherals or the routing of email) to other computers in the network

And if a computer is: > a programmable usually electronic device that can store, retrieve, and process data

How is it not a server? It is a computer, it is used to provide services, it's programmable and electronic, routes content... Do you have to assume each discord instance is running in its own container for you to consider it a server? It serves things.



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