In a 1956 radio interview, Bradbury stated that he wrote Fahrenheit 451 because of his concerns at the time (during the McCarthy era) about the threat of book burning in the United States. In later years, he stated his motivation for writing the book in more general terms.
Localhost Definition - A localhost is the standard host name provided to the address of the local computer in computer networking. The localhost... Localhost Definition - A localhost is the standard host name provided to the address of the local computer in computer networking. The localhost denotes the host name used in communicating with the loopback network interface; that is, with software on the computer that originated the transmission. Itâs also a reserved top-level domain name set.
Making it simple, localhost as a web address connects to your local machine, where in this case you have Apache installed as web server. The second part, :8080, means connect to port 8080 of that web address. If you don't specify it, your web browser will connect to the default webserver port, which is port 80.