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Veronica
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Very Easy Rodent Oriented
Net-wide Index to Computerized Archives --
Developed at the University of Nevada, Veronica is
a constantly updated database of the names of
almost every menu item on thousands of
gopher servers. The Veronica database
can be searched from most major gopher
menus.
See Also:
Gopher,
Server
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Virtual Domain
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When a Domain is "hosted"
(resides) on a machine that already has its own
Domain, several Domains can be hosted on the same
machine. Every Domain that isn't the real machine's
Domain is a Virtual Domain.
See Also:
Domain,
Host
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WAIS
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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 Internet. A
prominent feature of WAIS is that the search
results are ranked (scored) according to how
relevant the hits are, and that subsequent searches
can find more stuff like that last batch and thus
refine the search process.
See Also:
Network,
Internet,
Index,
Server
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WAN
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Wide Area Network -- Any
internet or network that covers an
area larger than a single building or
campus.
See Also:
Internet,
internet,
LAN,
Network
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Web
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World Wide Web.
See:
WWW
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WWW
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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 universe of hypertext
servers (HTTP servers) which are the
servers that allow text, graphics, sound
files, etc. to be mixed together.
See Also:
Browser,
FTP,
Gopher,
HTTP,
Telnet,
URL,
WAIS,
USENET
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WYSIWYG
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What You See Is What You Get
-- (pronounced weezeewig)
Many applications now are
wysiwyg, it means that the result from the
application will "look" the same as what you see on
the screen when you make it. It could be text
documents in a word processor, a publication
document in desktop publishing, graphics in
illustration software and many more, including the
web design programs now available. These web design
programs allow the beginners to visually design
pages by dropping pictures and pasting text in the
page and view the result at the same time.
See Also:
Browser,
web,
web
page
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ZIP
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A "ZIP file"
(archive) is a compressed file containing
many other files and directories, it is a very
common way to pass around software, the ZIP
format is most widely used in the PC/Intel
world, a more recent version of this
"archiver" was written for Windows with a
fully graphical user interface (GUI)
Also the name of a type of
floppy drive of 100 MB of capacity per disk and
made by Iomega.
See Also:
Archive,
Archiver,
GUI
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