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W3C
- World Wide Web Consortium. |
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The
group that is steering standards development for the World Wide
Web. The W3C exists to realize the full potential of the web.
The Consortium is run in the United States by MIT Laboratory
for Computer Science and in Europe by INRIA, in collaboration
with CERN where the web originated. |
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WAIS |
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Wide
Area Information System. An older, networked information retrieval
system. WAIS currently uses TCP/IP to connect client applications
to information servers. Client applications are able to retrieve
text or multimedia documents stored on the servers. Client applications
request documents using keywords. Servers search a full text
index for the documents and return a list of documents containing
the keyword. The client may then request the server to send
a copy of any of the documents found. |
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WAV |
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Pronounced
"wave," this is the Windows standard for waveform sound files.
WAV files predictably have the extension .wav. |
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Web
Browser |
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A
program that provides in interface, either text-based or graphical,
to the World Wide Web Browsers allow users to download pages
at different sites either by clicking hyperlinks
or by entering a Web page's address. |
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Web
Server |
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A
computer where a Web page resides. The computer can be dedicated,
meaning it is only used as a server, or non-dedicated, meaning
it can be used for basic computing and data processing. |
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