Web Glossary

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WAIS - Wide Area Information Server
Distributed information retrieval system that allows you to search huge amounts of information using keywords.

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WAIS Gateway
This term refers to a computer that is used to translate WAIS data so it can be made available to an otherwise incompatible network or application. Mosaic for instance, must use a WAIS gateway.

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WAN - Wide Area Network
Any internet or network that covers more than one single building. See also LAN.

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Web Browser
This is the software that allows a user to access and view HTML documents and which you are using to view this web site. Examples of Web browsers include Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mosaic, Cello and Lynx.
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Webmaster
The person who is responsible for the Web server (usually the sysadmin).
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Web Node
This term is synonymous with Web site or Web server.
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Whois
Program that queries the InterNIC's database of domain names.

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WinZip
This is one of the most commonly used applications for creation of non-image file compression/decompression on the Internet. The file extension is ".zip" and the result is usually called a "Zip file".

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World Wide Web
An Internet client-server system to distribute information, based upon the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP). Also known as WWW, W3 or the Web. Created at CERN in Geveva, Switzerland in 1991 by Dr. Tim Berners-Lee.

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WYSIWYG
What you see is what you get - often used to describe software that in edit mode displays on your screen exactly what the output will look like, on-screen or printed.

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