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WAIS / Wide Area Information Server
WAIS is a program that can index enormous amounts of information and can make the index searchable across network (including the Internet). WAIS will also rank the information found by searches by relevance. If that isn't enough, the search can be narrowed down even more by subsequent searches on the results found by the previous search.

WAN / Wide Area Network
A WAN is similar to a LAN, but it is much bigger. Unlike LANs, WANs are not limited to a single location. Many wide area networks span long distances via telephone lines, fiber-optic cables, or stellite links. They can also be composed of smaller LANs that are interconnected. The Internet could be described as the biggest WAN in the world.

WAP / Wireless Application Protocol
A set of specifications that describes how portable wireless devices such as phones and PDAs should access the Internet and communicate with each other.

WAP Gateway
A bridge between two distinct network, the Internet and the wireless phone/data network.

Wap Hosting
Hosting services that allow customers to access the website via a WAP-enabled device.

Warez
Pirated software, generally distributed on Usenet. The warez (pronounces wares) movement perfectly exemplifies the difficulties of regulating Internet activity.

Wav
An audio file format developed for the Microsoft Windows platform. Files have the .wav file extension.

WDM / Wavelength Division Multiplexing
A technology that uses optical signals on different wavelengths to increase the capacity of fiber optic networks in order to handle a number of services simultaneously.(see Multiplexing)

Web Farm
On the Internet, a Web server farm, or simply Web farm, may refer to a Web site that uses two or more servers to handle user requests. Typically, serving user requests for the files (pages) of a Web site can be handled by a single server. However, larger Web sites may require multiple servers. Web farm is a term that is also simply used to mean a business that performs Web site hosting on multiple servers. Some Web farms allow you to put your own server on their site, a service known as colocation. (see Server Farm)

Web Hosting
Hosting, also known as Web site hosting or Web hosting is the business of housing, serving, and maintaining files for one or more Web sites on web servers at very fast Internet connection.

Web Ring
A Web ring is a way of interlinking related Web sites so that people can visit one site after another, eventually returning to the first Web site. Most Web rings allow people to browse backwards or forwards through the sites in the ring, or see all the sites in the ring and visit whichever one they choose.

Web Server
A program that serves up Web pages upon request. Every computer on the Internet that contains a Web site must have a Web server program.

Web-Based Email
Web-Based Email allows you to read email anywhere in the world from any PC that has an Internet connection.

Webcam
A camera hooked up to World Wide Web showing regularly updated pictures of the subject in focus.

Webcast
An audio or video broadcast on the Web, usually of an event such as a concert, an interview or a sports fixture.

Weblog
A Web-based diary of pithy commentary from users, generally focused on a specific subject area.

Webmaster
Someone who builds, manages or administers a website.

Website
A virtual location on the World Wide Web, identified by a Web address such as www.Research-Hosting.co.uk.

Webtone
Broadly, a Utopian Web equivalent of dialtone: continuous, reliable, round-the-clock access to the Internet.

WebTV
A service incorporating access to both television and the Internet.

WHOIS
This is an Internet service that finds information about a domain name or IP address. If you enter a domain name in a WHOIS search engine, it will scour a huge database of domains and return information about the one you entered. This information typically contains the name, address, and phone number of the administrative and technical contacts of the domain name. WHOIS can also be used to simply check if a certain domain name is available or if it has already been registered.

WINDOWS 2000
Windows 2000 was originally designed to replace and unify the many current versions of Microsoft's operating system into a single product that will run on desktops, servers and many other smaller devices.

WML / Wireless Markup Language
Which allows text-base Web information to be displayed on wireless devices such as mobile phones and PDAs.

WMLScript
The WAP version of JavaScript.

WRT
Net shorthand for With Respect To. Ex: "WRT to your request, I don't know anything about pie-charts. Ask Roy."

WWW / World Wide Web
A network of documents and recources linked to one another and viewable in a user-friendly, point-and-click HyperText environment. The Web uses its own protocol on the Net, HTTP, the "Hypertext Transport Protocol," for transferring files from a Web server to a local user's computer and Web client program (like Netscape Navigator or Mosaic, also known as Web "browsers"). Since the Web concept includes backward compatibility with earlier Internet protocols like FTP and Gopher, any Web client program now provides the easiest and most advanced way to use the whole Internet. With the Web interface provided by the client program, retrieving information on the Net is done via hypertext or hypermedia links, rather than by making choices on hierarchical menus or by typing commands at a system prompt. The Web enables users to access information in all kinds of formats and file types (text, image, graphics, sound, and video) through one user interface or "front end."

WYSIWYG
("wizz-ee-wig") Computer shorthand for What You See Is What You Get, meaning that printouts will be identical to monitor output.

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