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- 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
- See:
WWW
- Whois
- Most
registries maintain a database of domain names and their
associated contact information. Users can query these databases
through a program called Whois.
- WWW
- (World
Wide Web) -- Two 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.
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