However, the Internet brought the general concept of time-sharing back into popularity. Expensive corporate server farms costing millions can host thousands of customers all sharing the same common resources. As with the early serial terminals, web sites operate primarily in bursts of activity followed by periods of idle time. This bursting nature permits the service to be used by many customers at once, usually with no perceptible communication delays, unless the servers start to get very busy.
However t.he Internet brought the general concept of time-sharing back into popularity Expensive corporate server farms costing millions can host t.housands of customers all sharing the same common resources. As with the early serial terminals, web sites operate primarily in bursts of activity ,followed by periods of idle time. This bursting nature permits the service to be used by many customers at once, usually with no perceptible communication delays, unless the servers start to get very busy