The World Wide Web Consortium - The World Wide Web is the universe of network-accessible information. The World Wide Web Consortium exists to realize the full potential of the Web.
Wide Area Information Server - A client-server information system that lets users search through databases with a single user interface.
Wide Area Network - A network that connects computers over a large geographic area.
Widely used in cracker subcultures to denote cracked version of commercial software, that is versions from which copy-protection has been stripped. Hackers recognize this term but don't use it themselves.
A Microsoft Windows sound file.
One of the most popular search facilities on the Web. It indexes World Wide Web pages by title and URL.
You can search the Internet with Webcrawler by using the form below:
One who is immersed in the new culture of the World Wide Web, which emphasizes freedom of information and the access to it; technology and its effects on the future of our culture; and individual freedom and freedom of expression.
WebTV is a new way to access the Internet from your TV. You don't need a computer and there's no software to load. All you need is a television, a phone line, and a WebTV Internet terminal, and you're on the Internet.
WebTV is the first all-in-one, TV-based online service and set-top box designed to solve the complexities and hassles consumers experience when getting on the Internet. WebTV is a no-compromise, high-performance solution that provides easy-to-use, affordable Internet access wherever there is a television and a standard phone line. WebTV consists of two components: the WebTV Reference Design, and the WebTV Network.
Web sites or homepages you visit with WebTV look a little different than when you view them from your computer desktop with Netscape or Internet Explorer. The most obvious difference is that things look a little squashed vertically. There are style guides available to help Web designers to create the best possible looking WebTV page. For some tips click on the more button below.
A means of looking up names in a remote database. Used initially as an aid for finding e-mail addresses for people at large institutions or companies.
A place where you can search for someone's e-mail address by entering their name and location. whowhere also does searches for telephone numbers both residential and business. Even though the database is still growing it is fun to see who turns up every now and then.
A medium-capacity communications circuit/path. It usually implies a speed from 64Kbps to 1.544Mbps.
short for Windows sockets - is a technical specification that defines a standard interface between a Windows TCP/IP client application (such as an FTP client or a Gopher client) and the underlying TCP/IP protocol stack. The nomenclature is based on the Sockets applications programming interface model used in Berkeley UNIX for communications between programs.
SEE ALSO: Trumpet Winsock.AOL winsock - An add on to the AOL for Windows application that will allow you to run Internet applications which require direct Internet connections to work. The AOL Winsock allows you, through your AOL connection, to communicate with other systems using the IP protocol, the background 'language' of the Internet. The AOL Winsock is customized to work efficiently with America Online and will not work with another Internet access provider.
WWW or the Web or W3) - You're in it -- the system by which you are viewing this document right now! Technically it is a global (Worldwide) hypertext system that uses the Internet as it's transport mechanism. In a hypertext system, you navigate by clicking hyperlinks, which display another document which also contains hyperlinks. What makes the web such an exciting and useful medium is that the next document you see could be housed on a computer next door or half-way around the world. The web makes the Internet easy to use. Created in 1989 at a research institute in Switzerland, the web relies upon the hypertext transport protocol (http), an Internet standard that specifies how an application can locate and acquire resources stored on another computer on the Internet. Most web documents are created using hypertext markup language (html), an easy to learn coding system for WWW documents. Incorporating hypermedia (graphics, sounds, animations, video), the web has become the ideal medium for publishing information on the Internet. With the development of secured server protocol (https), the web is quickly becoming an important commercial medium whereby consumers can browse on-line catalogs and purchase merchandise without worrying that their credit card information will be intercepted. SEE ALSO: Web page, Web site, and homepage.
What you see is what you get.
