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  • WAIS
    Wide Area Information Server. A software system intended to search large database servers on the Web and then rank the findings or hits.
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  • WAN
    Wide Area Network. This network connects several computer so they can share files and sometimes equipment, as well as exchange email. A wide area network connects computers across a large geographic area. The World Wide Web is a WAN.
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  • W3
    Synonym of WWW.
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  • Web
    A network of HTTP servers. The most discussed web is the World Wide Web (WWW), which is sometimes known as "the Web," but there are many other webs, often called internal webs or intranets, inside of organizations.
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  • the Web
    See World Wide Web (WWW).
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  • Web browser
    A Web client designed for interactive use by a person to access the Web. A Web browser takes Uniform Resource Locator (URL)s as input and uses the protocol, server name and path which are specified in the URL, to obtain the specified resource. The resource may be an HTML document, a compressed file, the output of a server interface program (CGI), or any other resource that can be located via a URL.
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  • Web client
    A program capable of communicating with Web servers, requesting and receiving information from them, and processing it for display or other uses. Web browsers are a kind of Web client. Other common Web clients are generally programmatic (not operated by a human) and serve to perform systematic queries over a range of Web servers, for example for indexing purposes.
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  • Web content
    Files that can be transmitted via the World Wide Web. This includes files of virtually any type.
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  • Webmaster
    Person responsible for administering a Web site. Can also be a team of people.
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  • Web page
    A document consisting of one or more screens that are displayed via a browser. A Web page is referenced by one URL.
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  • Web server
    A program that responds to requests from Web clients. A Web client requests one resource at a time. The resource can be an HTML document, a GIF image, an MPEG movie, or any of the types of resources defined by MIME.
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  • Web site
    A virtual location on the Web. A URL that serves as the top-level address of a Web site will be said to point to that Web site's home page. That page serves as a reference point, containing pointers to additional HTML pages or links to other Web sites.
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  • Web site life cycle
    The stages of a Web site. For example, a sites may be implemented initially to share marketing information, grow to facilitate a virtual organizations, becoming a new source of revenue, offer improved service through collaboration, and, finally, completely transform business practices.
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  • Web store
    Web site that transacts business ( the exchange of goods or services for value) totally via the Internet. It presents items for sale as electronic offers and supports total online access to all the services required to make and finalize a sale. A Web store does not resort to non-Web communication, such as the telephone.
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  • White Book
    This is the fourth major extension to the audio CD standard. White Book is a very medium-specific format.
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  • WinSock
    Windows Socket Services. A piece of software that acts as the middleman between Windows applications and the Internet protocol.
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  • Word Spotting
    A technology that looks for a pre-defined word or list of words and assigns a confidence to each citation.
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  • Workflow
    The movement of documents around an organization for purposes including sign-off, evaluation, performing activities in a process and co-writing.
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  • World Wide Web (WWW)
    The collection of all the resources (HTML documents, images, and other files, as well as CGI interface programs) accessible on the Internet mainly via HTTP but also via older protocols and mechanisms, such as FTP or Gopher, which are supported by most Web browsers. The emergence of Web browsers has made access to these resources achievable to a broad base of users beyond the more technically savvy traditional users of the Internet who relied on less user-friendly access tools than currently available browsers. Often referred to as "the Web", WWW or W3.
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