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W WEB BROWSER A Program installed in your computer's memory that reads, or 'browses' Web pages. A full Internet connection is needed for them to browse the web. Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator are the most popular Web browsers, now available in 'suites' along with many other essential Internet programs. WEBCASTING Webcasting (push technology) refers to the prearranged updating of news, weather, or any other selected information on a computer user'' desktop interface. This is achieved through periodic, and generally unobtrusive, transmission over the world Wide Web (which includes the use of the Web protocol on intranets). WEB RING A Web ring is a way of interlinking related Web sites so that you can visit each site one after the other, eventually (if you keep going) returning to the first web site. WEB SPACE Web space is the amount of space available for the construction of a web page. Pictures, text and everything else all take up a certain amount of room, so the more space you can get the better. Web space is measured in the form of Megabytes. WORLD WIDE WEB ( WWW ) The World Wide Web is a collection of interconnecting webpages forming a global source of information for anyone who can get access to the Internet. There are billions of webpages available on every topic under the sun. A new, economical telephone line that gives you a 'permanent' link to the internet. |
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