- WAIS
- See wide area information servers.
- WAN
- See wide area network.
- Web
- See world wide web.
- Web Crawler
- Service that scans web documents and adds them to a
database. After having indexed one page it follows all links and indexes them as
well. See also search engine.
- Webmaster
- The person in charge of a web server. Most web
servers will allow mails to be sent to the webmaster. The web master of
http://www.foobar.org/ can be reached at webmaster@foobar.org, for example. See
also postmaster.
- What You See Is What You Get
- The promise that what you see on screen will also
be what you get when you print out the document. Only very few software packages
are able to fulfill this promise.
- Wide Area Information Servers
- Software package that allows the indexing of large
quantities of information. Uses a separate protocol from HTTP and is not used very
much anymore. See also HTTP, search engine.
- Wide Area Network
- A network that is distributed over several
locations. See also LAN.
- Wintel
- The majority of computers today run the Wintel
combination; the Windows operating systems and Intel processors.
- World Wide Web
- The part of the Internet, which is accessible
through a web browser. The Web is not the Internet, but a subset.
- Worm
- A program that is designed to replicate itself over
a network. Although not all worms are designed to destroy anything, most of them
will try to attack your resources.
- WRT
- Net-langauge for "with respect to".
- WWW
- See world wide web.
- WYSIWYG
- See what you see is what you get.
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