Web page

or World Wide Web page - There are different usages of this term. The most technically correct usage means a single HTML file, which when viewed by a browser on the World Wide Web (WWW) could be several screen-dimensions long, meaning you would "scroll" to view contents that are off-screen. The size of a Web page varies greatly from system to system and depends largely on what your computer monitor's resolution is set at, therefore the contents of a given HTML file which appears either as 2 or 10 or any amount of screens long, is considered a single Web page.

If you scroll up and down this page for example you will notice other information on it other than just what fits in one screen of your browser. All this information is considered a to be on one Web page. Large Web sites are said to have hundreds of pages of information. This means the site contains hundreds of separate documents varying in length each with probably a different topic or subject.

Web page length is sometimes judged by how much of its content fits on a printed 8 1/2" X 11" page. This usage is less correct and is usually only done by Web designers who have crossed over from the print industry in estimating how many pages they are going to charge a client for designing.

The term Web page is also used to refer to an entire Web site. You may hear someone say "have you got a Web page?", This usage pertains more to a collection of "pages" which are "housed" under one domain name. You may also hear it referred as a homepage, although a homepage is indeed a Web page it is not quite the same since a homepage is usually the starting point or front door to alot more Web pages or Web site.

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Web jam

A weblike layering of music, media, performers, audience, and the surrounding ecosystem into a rhythmic "jungle." The objective is to celebrate an expanded sense of nature inclusive of culture and technology. With roots in African American jazz and 1990's Rave culture, the web jam takes an improvisational, "emergent" approach to cultural, political, and ecological systems. The first web jam, known as "Organism," was instigated by Ebon Fisher in the spring of 1993 in collaboration with 120 artists, musicians, and children from Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Over 2,000 people attended -jamming from 6 at night till 9 the next morning.

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WinZIP

Net Software

The Windows program you are going to need to decompress most of the files you download on the Internet. Macintosh users check out StuffIT. WinZip brings the convenience of Windows to the use of ZIP files without requiring PKZIP and PKUNZIP. The new WinZip Wizard makes unzipping easier than ever. WinZip features built-in support for popular Internet file formats, including TAR, gzip, Unix compress, UUencode, BinHex, and MIME. ARJ, LZH, and ARC files are supported via external programs. WinZip interfaces to most virus scanners.

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worm

Technical Term

A computer program that can replicate itself. The most famous example is the 1987 "Internet worm" which shut down hundreds of computers nationwide.

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