WAIS - See: Wide Area Information Servers

WAN - See: Wide area network

Weather - Programs providing real-time weather information over the Internet.

Web Page - Any page or screen from a Web Site.

Web Site - A page or collection of pages on the World Wide Web accessible to anyone with Internet access and Web Browser software. Web Sites can be either personal or commercial.

Web Site Promotion - Marketing a Web Site so people can find it. Yellow page and white page directories on the Internet list Web Sites.

white pages - The Internet supports several databases that contain basic information about users, such as email addresses, telephone numbers, and postal addresses. These databases can be searched to get information about particular individuals. Because they serve a function akin to the telephone book, these databases are often referred to as "white pages.

WHOIS - An Internet program which allows users to query a database of people and other Internet entities, such as domains, networks, and hosts, kept at the DDN NIC. The information for people shows a person's company name, address, phone number and email address.

Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS) - A distributed information service which offers simple natural language input, indexed searching for fast retrieval, and a "relevance feedback" mechanism which allows the results of initial searches to influence future searches. Public domain implementations are available. See also: archie, Gopher, Prospero.

Wide Area Network (WAN) - A network, usually constructed with serial lines, which covers a large geographic area. See also: Local Area Network, Metropolitan Area Network.

Winsock Applications - Internet applications for Windows 3.x, Windows 95, and Windows NT.

World Wide Web - An area of the Internet making Internet resources accessible through a graphical interface called a Web Browser.

World Wide Web (WWW or W3) - A hypertext-based, distributed information system created by researchers at CERN in Switzerland. Users may create, edit or browse hypertext documents. The clients and servers are freely available.

World Wide Web Browser - Interactive software program for accessing the Internet's World Wide Web. Ftp, gopher, telnet, and even e-mail applications may be accessed through Web Browsers as well. The graphical interface displays pictures, text, and multimedia elements such as video and sound clips. Interaction is through mouse point and click actions.

WWW - See: World Wide Web

WYSIWYG - What You See is What You Get