Here you can find explanation of terms used over the internet or computers, or as jargon in web development. Terms are sorted alphabetically.
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W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)
The World Wide Web Consortium is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web. It is arranged as a consortium where member organizations maintain full-time staff for the purpose of working together in the development of standards for the WWW.
Webpage
A computer-generated document. It can contain links to other pages, digital images, sound and full-motion video presentations. The end of any web page is reached when the scroll bar reaches the bottom of the screen. Sometimes referred to as a logical page or Web document.
Website
A collection of pages and files on the World Wide Web built around a common theme, community, or subject.
Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity)
Wi-Fi used as the global brand name across all markets for any 802.11-based (Ethernet) wireless LAN products. Typically any Wi-Fi product using the same radio frequency (for example, 2.4GHz for 802.11b or 11g, 5GHz for 802.11a) are interoperable.
Worm
A worm is a virus that does not infect other programs. It makes copies of itself, and infects additional computers (typically by making use of network connections) but does not attach itself to additional programs; however a worm might alter, install, or destroy files and programs.
WWW (World Wide Web)
The World Wide Web is an Internet protocol that makes use of the HTML, hypertext, and hypermedia to create pages with links to other pages. WWW pages can include graphics, audio, and video as well as text.
WYSIWYG
Acronym for "What You See Is What You Get". The term applies to word processors and web page development software where you manipulate text and images directly without writing codes (such as HTML or dot codes) for each attribute.
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