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W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
An organization sponsored by several companies to co-ordinate the
further development of the WWW.
WAIS - Wide Area Information Server
WAIS allows to send requests to retrieval systems via Internet.
WAN - Wide Area Network
A computer network that is not, like a LAN,
limited to a local area.
WB - WorkBench
The name of the GUI of the
AmigaOS.
WWW/W3 - World Wide Web
The multimedia system of the Internet. It combines texts, pictures,
animations, videos, sounds, modules...
The standard document format is HTML.
The Internet protocol HTTP was designed for
the WWW, but WWW clients also use other Internet services like
FTP, Gopher, NNTP,
E-Mail, Telnet and WAIS.
WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get
This principle is used in DTP.
WYSIWYMG - What You See Is What You Might Get
This principle is used for HTML editors,
because SGML applications only describe the
markup, not the "make-up".
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