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...

Wide Area Network , Any internet or network that covers an area larger than a single building or campus. Usually a sum of smaller LANs .

World Wide Web , Two 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...

A web host is a new type of company specific to the Internet. The web host basically provides your web site a home on the Internet so that it may be accessed from anywhere in the world. The idea is...

A computer, or a software package, that provides a specific kind of service to client software running on other computers. The term can refer to a particular piece of software (such as Apache or...