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These both refer to copying files from the internet to your local machine and vice versa. As you may or may not know, the internet is just a world-wide collection of computers - web pages are simply shared files stored on the harddrives of these machines. Anyway, to "download" a file is to copy it from a machine on the 'internet' to your machine - when you go to a web page you are 'downloading' the information required to display that web page to your machine. An "upload" is when you copy a file from your machine to a server on the internet - this is less common - for example, when you are "uploading" your CV to a job site, or attaching a file to an e-mail on Hotmail (or other web-based e-mail systems), or if you are 'uploading' your own web page to a internet server so other people can 'download' it.
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In simple laymen's terms: Upload: send a file away from your computer. Download: pull a file into your computer.
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