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Fundamental question on web development

I am just getting into web development and I want to understand it better and more theoretically. Smilie

So by now I can create some basic websites with html, css, php, etc, but what I do not understand is how is this then projected into the world wide web or what we call the internet??? Of course I've used the free web hosting websites to display my websites, but I just do not understand how they work and what exactly is web hosting and its relation to a server.
For example I can technically make my crappy laptop a server, but it doesn't mean I can host a website?

Basically can somebody help me understand this process a bit more simply, I read a bit about it, but most people/info sites just throw some words around, which don't give me fundamental picture of the whole process.

Thank you in advance!

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CAKEPHP-INSTAWEB(1)					      General Commands Manual					       CAKEPHP-INSTAWEB(1)

NAME

       cakephp-instaweb - lightweight HTTP server for developing CakePHP applications

SYNOPSIS

       cakephp-instaweb [-p PORT] [-i INTERFACE] [-r] [-q] [<webroot>]

DESCRIPTION

       cakephp-instaweb is a lightweight web server designed for quick development of CakePHP web applications.

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       application's "app" folder without specifying a webroot argument will start a small web server on port 3000 that will point at your  appli-
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OPTIONS

       --port, -p
	      Specify which port to run on. (default: 3000)

       --interface, -i
	      Specify which interface to run on. (default: 127.0.0.1)

       --disable-rewrite, -r
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