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 # sockets
-Snippets on socket programming in C
+Socket and Snippets programing in C
+TCP/IP socket programming in C
+Sockets are the "virtual" endpoints of any kind of network communications done between 2 hosts over in a network. For example when you type www.google.com in your web browser, it opens a socket and connects to google.com to fetch the page and show it to you.