isr.co.ro : glossary Distributed Said of applications that use resources on more than one computer. The computers may be connected as equals (peer-to-peer networking) or some may provide services at the request of the others (client-server networking). On the Internet, most applications use a distributed client-server model, with a host computer on the net acting as the server and your desktop computer acting as the client. For example, when you browse the World Wide Web, the pages are furnished by a server and your Web browser program is the client.