World Wide
Web Consortium
Wide Area Information System
Stands for Wide Area
Network
A
file type for a
sound file, which can be played under
windows. When you press the wrong key & the PC plays back a loud "ping", the
operating system is actually running a wav file. This particular file on my PC has worn out because of the millions of times it has been accessed. Wave Files have a
file extension of .wav.
Short for the
Internet World-Web Web.
The person who is responsible for looking after a particular
Web Site
An
HTML document which contains information which can be seen on the
Internet
A group of
Web Pages that collectively represent a company, or individual on the
WWW. A group of Web pages that have been developed together to present information on a specific subject(s) is also a Web
Site - This Glossary falls into that category.
The amount of storage space that your
Internet Service Provider gives you to use for your own personal
web page. Normally between 2
Megabytes & 10 Megabytes
A
program that provides in interface, either text-based or graphical, to the World Wide
Web Browsers allow users to
download pages at different
sites either by clicking
hyperlinks or by entering a Web page's address. Examples include:
Internet Explorer;
Netscape Navigator;
Mosaic.
A computer where a
Web page resides. The computer can be dedicated, meaning it is only used as a
server, or non-dedicated, meaning it can be used for
basic computing and
data processing.
An
application program that permits several users linked via a
network to update the same physical document - just as if they were all in a room together gathered around a whiteboard, each user with their own marker pens & board rubber.
An older, networked information retrieval system.
WAIS currently uses TCP/IP to connect client applications to information
servers. Client applications are able to retrieve text or
multimedia documents stored on the servers. Client applications request documents using
keywords. Servers
search a full text
index for the documents and return a list of documents containing the keyword. The client may then request the server to send a
copy of any of the documents found.
Basically a linked
Network of
LANs. The
Internet can be considered to be the largest
WAN there has ever been.
Wild cards are used in
searching for information by
application programs and
operating systems in
files or documents. Often the asterisk (*) can be used as a wildcard and it represents any character you like. For example if you are looking through a list of names of Countries and you want only those containing the letter 'X' then you would search for '*X*' which denotes any letter(s) before the X and any letter(s) after. This would find both Luxembourg and Mexico.
Windows is the everyday term for Microsoft Windows that is a
multitasking Graphical User Interface that runs under
DOS. This user interface is made up of a number of "views" which sit on top of each other - these are the Windows. Tasks are performed by using a
mouse to
click an
Icon, selecting an item from a
menu or using the mouse to click on an item on a
toolbar.
Microsoft
operating system first seen in 1993. It is a 32
Bit Operating system. Well suited to a
network environment where users share services (printing,
application programs &
data).
Word
Processors are
Application program used mainly for creating text-based documents. Used by everyone to send letters to Mum, do the CV, newsletters, prepare business documentation, Invoices etc. Word Processors have moved on significantly over a short period of time. Nowadays one can insert pictures, check spelling automatically, change the color of the text. This Glossary was prepared using Microsoft Word. Examples of Word processors include: Microsoft Word; Word Perfect; Ami Pro.
This is a function of word
processors and text editing
application programs, which ensures that if a word does not fit within the boundaries of a particular line then the whole word is moved to the next line. This happens automatically.
A PC set up for use by one person at any point in time - normally linked to a
network
A method of using the
Internet for graphically oriented information
The group that is steering standards in development for the World Wide
Web. The
W3C exists to realize the full potential of the web. The Consortium is run in the United States by MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and in Europe by INRIA, in collaboration with CERN where the web originated.
A
file or disk that is write-protected to prevent anyone from accidentally or intentionally changing the contents. A write-protected file can only be read.
Acronym for World-Wide
Web, a method of using the
Internet for graphically oriented information
Acronym for What You See Is What You Get basically it means that what you can see on the screen is what you will see on paper when you print the screen contents.