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W3C
(World Wide Web Consortium) The W3C is an industry consortium which seeks to promote standards of the evolution of the Web and interoperability between WWW products by producing specifications and reference software. Although W3C is funded by industrial members, it is vendor-neutral and its products are freely available to all.
WAN
An acronym for Wide Area Network, WAN refers to a network that connects computers over long distances via telephone lines or satellite links. In a WAN, the computers are physically and sometimes geographically far apart.
See also LAN
See WAN Links for full details
Web Hosting
The outsourced provision of facilities to locate (host) web sites or servers.
WebMaster
A webmaster is a person in charge of maintaining a web site. This may include writing HTML files, setting up more complex programs, and responding to e-mail. Many sites encourage you to mail comments and questions about the site's web pages to the webmaster.
See also HTML
Web Page
A web page is a document created with HTML (Hypertext Mark-up Language) that is part of a group of hypertext documents or resources available on the World Wide Web. Collectively, these documents and resources form what is known as a web site. You can read HTML documents that reside somewhere on the Internet or on your local hard drive, using a software program called a web browser. Web browsers read HTML documents and display them as formatted presentations, with any associated graphics, sound, and video, on a computer screen.
Web pages can contain hypertext links to other places within the same document, to other documents at the same web site, or to documents at other web sites. They can also contain fill-in forms, photos, large clickable images, sounds, and videos for downloading.
See also HTML
Web Site
A web site is a collection of network services, primarily HTML documents, that are linked together and that exist on the Web at a particular server. Exploring a web site usually begins with the home page, which may lead you to more information about that site. A single server may support multiple web sites.
See also HTML
Winsock
Short for Windows Sockets, Winsock describes a standard way for Windows programs to work with TCP/IP. You use Winsock if you directly connect your Windows PC to the Internet, either with a permanent connection or with a modem by using SLIP or PPP.
See also TCP/IP; SLIP; PPP
WinZip
A WinZip is a compression program for Windows that allows you to "zip" and "unzip" Zip files, as well as other standard types of archive files.
World Wide Web
The exact definition of the World Wide Web (popularly known as the Web) varies, depending on whom you ask. Three common descriptions are:
A collection of resources (Gopher, FTP, http, telnet, Usenet, WAIS, and others) that can be accessed via a web browser.
A collection of hypertext files available on web servers.
A set of specifications (protocols) that allows the transmission of web pages over the Internet.
You can think of the Web as a worldwide collection of text and multimedia files and other network services interconnected via a system of hypertext documents. Http (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) was created in 1990, at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, as a means for sharing scientific data internationally, instantly, and inexpensively. With hypertext, a word or phrase can contain a link to other text. To achieve this, CERN developed a programming language called HTML that allows you to easily link to other pages or network services on the Web.
See also Web Page and Web Site
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