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Term |
Definition |
| WAIS |
(Wide Area Information Servers) -- A commercial software package
that allows the indexing of huge quantities of information, and then making
those indices searchable across networks such as the Internet. A prominent
feature of WAIS is that the search results are ranked (scored) according to how
relevant the hits are, and that subsequent searches can find more stuff like
that last batch and thus refine the search process. |
| WAN |
(Wide Area Network) -- Any internet or network that covers an area
larger than a single building or campus. |
| Web address |
This contains 5 parts 1. HTTP:// the protocol for communication 2.
Www. Says its an internet address (agruably redundant) 3. PayneHall the domain
name 4. Co. the type of institution 5..UK the country |
| WIMP |
(Windows Icons Menu Pointer) a style of user interface. |
| World Wide Web |
· sites often contain colourful graphics, sound and
animation, as well as text, and each may be linked to many other Web sites.
Many of the most informative sites are sponsored by educational and non-profit
organizations. Some sites are sponsored by movie companies, toy manufacturers,
publishers, and other firms to sell their products. There also are thousands of
sites created by individuals to express an idea, pursue a hobby, or
“publish” their own vision. |
| Worm |
A self-replicating program that reproduces itself over a
network. |
| WWW |
(World Wide Web) -- Frequently used (incorrectly) when referring to
"The Internet", WWW has two major meanings - First, loosely used: the whole
constellation of resources that can be accessed using Gopher, FTP, HTTP,
telnet, USENET, WAIS and some other tools. Second, the universe of hypertext
servers (HTTP servers) which are the servers that allow text, graphics, sound
files, etc. to be mixed together. |
| WYSIWYG |
What you see is what you get. |
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