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WORLD-WIDE WEB

Specialty Definition: WORLD-WIDE WEB

DomainDefinition

Computing

World-Wide Web (WWW, W3, The Web) An Internet client-server hypertext distributed information retrieval system which originated from the CERN High-Energy Physics laboratories in Geneva, Switzerland. An extensive user community has developed on the Web since its public introduction in 1991. In the early 1990s, the developers at CERN spread word of the Web's capabilities to scientific audiences worldwide. By September 1993, the share of Web traffic traversing the NSFNET Internet backbone reached 75 gigabytes per month or one percent. By July 1994 it was one terabyte per month. On the WWW everything (documents, menus, indices) is represented to the user as a hypertext object in HTML format. Hypertext links refer to other documents by their URLs. These can refer to local or remote resources accessible via FTP, Gopher, Telnet or news, as well as those available via the http protocol used to transfer hypertext documents. The client program (known as a browser), e.g. NCSA Mosaic, Netscape Navigator, runs on the user's computer and provides two basic navigation operations: to follow a link or to send a query to a server. A variety of client and server software is freely available. Most clients and servers also support "forms" which allow the user to enter arbitrary text as well as selecting options from customisable menus and on/off switches. Following the widespread availability of web browsers and servers, many companies from about 1995 realised they could use the same software and protocols on their own private internal TCP/IP networks giving rise to the term "intranet". If you don't have a WWW browser, but you are on the Internet, you can access the Web using the command: telnet www.w3.org (Internet address 128.141.201.74) but it's much better if you install a browser on your own computer. The World Wide Web Consortium is the main standards body for the web. An article by John December (http://sunsite.unc.edu/cmc/mag/1994/oct/webip.html). A good place to start exploring (http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/StartingPoints/NetworkStartingPoints.html). WWW servers, clients and tools (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Status.html). Mailing list: . Usenet newsgroups: news:comp.infosystems.www.misc, news:comp.infosystems.www.providers, news:comp.infosystems.www.users, news:comp.infosystems.announce. The best way to access this dictionary is via the Web since you will get the latest version and be able to follow cross-references easily. If you are reading a plain text version of this dictionary then you will see lots of curly brackets and strings like (http://hostname/here/there/page.html) These are transformed into hypertext links when you access it via the Web. See also Java, webhead. (1996-10-28). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: WORLD-WIDE WEB

Specialty definitions using "WORLD-WIDE WEB": 404 ♦ Alta Vista, America On-Line, Inc., Animated GIF, archive site ♦ Boolean search ♦ cobweb site, ColdFusion, Common Gateway Interface, Compulink Information eXchange, CPU Info Center, CUSI, cyberchondriac, cyberspastic, CyberZine ♦ egosurfing, electronic commerce, electronic funds transfer, electronic magazine, Extensible Markup Language, extranet ♦ fill-out form, frequently asked question, fully qualified domain name ♦ Google ♦ HotJava, Hotline Connect, hotlist, HTTP cookie, HTTPd ♦ I-Comm, Information Innovation, InfoSeek ♦ JavaScript ♦ Lycos, lynix ♦ mouse droppings, Moving Picture Experts Group, MPEG-1 audio layer 3, Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions ♦ National Center for Supercomputing Applications ♦ Platform for Internet Content Selection, plug-in, Prospero, proxy gateway, proxy server, pull media ♦ Resource Description Framework ♦ standard for robot exclusion, sticky content, Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language ♦ Tim Berners-Lee ♦ USENET ♦ Vine Technology, virtual path, virtual server, Visual dBASE ♦ W3, webcam, WebCrawler, webhead, Wide Area Information Servers, World Wide Web Consortium, World-Wide Web browser, World-Wide Web Worm, WWW browser, WWWW. (references)

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Commercial Usage: WORLD-WIDE WEB

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Books

  • The Internet Publishing Handbook: For World-Wide Web, Gopher, and Wais (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: WORLD-WIDE WEB

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-d-d-e-e-i-l-o-r-w-w-w"

-3 letters: worldwide.

-4 letters: bewilder, erodible, rebodied, reboiled, wildered.

-5 letters: bielded, blowier, boweled, bowered, bowlder, bridled, broiled, debride, dowdier, doweled, dowered, dreidel, elbowed, lowbred, lowered, reoiled, roweled, widowed, widower, wielded, wielder.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: WORLD-WIDE WEB


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 4F 52 4C 44 2D 57 49 44 45      57 45 42

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010111 01001111 01010010 01001100 01000100 00101101 01010111 01001001 01000100 01000101 00100000 01010111 01000101 01000010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#79 &#82 &#76 &#68 &#45 &#87 &#73 &#68 &#69 &#32 &#87 &#69 &#66

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 004F 0052 004C 0044 002D 0057 0049 0044 0045      0057 0045 0042

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

574952463815574338392573936

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography 		5. Bibliography


  

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