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WAIS
(Wide Area Information Servers) -- A commercial software package
that allows the indexing of huge quantities of information, and
then making those indices searchable across networks such
as the Internet. A prominent feature of WAIS is that the
search results are ranked (scored) according to how relevant the
hits are, and that subsequent searches can find more stuff like
that last batch and thus refine the search process.
WAN
(Wide Area Network) -- Any internet or network that
covers an area larger than a single building or campus.
See
Also: Internet , LAN , Network
Web
See: WWW
WWW
(World
Wide Web) -- Frequently used (incorrectly) when referring to "The
Internet", WWW has two major meanings - First, loosely used: the
whole constellation of resources that can be accessed using Gopher,
FTP, HTTP, telnet, USENET, WAIS and some other tools. Second,
the universe of hypertext servers (HTTP servers) which
are the servers that allow text, graphics, sound files, etc. to
be mixed together.
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