Chapter 2 - The Internet and World Wide Web
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| show | access provider
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| Program that extends the capability of a browser; often used to enhance multimedia. See also plug-in. | show 🗑
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| show | address book
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| Animation technique that combines several GIF images in a single GIF file. | show 🗑
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| show | animation
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| Feature of many FTP sites whereby anyone can transfer some, if not all, available files. | show 🗑
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| Advanced Research Projects Agency; agency of the U.S. Department of Defense that built an early computer network called ARPANET. | show 🗑
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| Network developed by the Pentagon’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) that linked scientific and academic researchers across the United States. | show 🗑
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| Specification sometimes used by content aggregators to distribute content. | show 🗑
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| Music, speech, or any other sound. | show 🗑
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| show | blog
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| Author of a Weblog. | show 🗑
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| show | blogosphere
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| show | bookmark
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| show | broadband
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| show | browser
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| Established list of friends, family, and coworkers used in instant messaging. | show 🗑
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| E-commerce that takes place between businesses. | show 🗑
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| The sale of goods and services to the general public. | show 🗑
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| show | cable Internet service
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| show | ccTLD
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| High-speed Internet connection for devices with built-in compatible technology or computers with wireless modems. | show 🗑
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| Real-time typed conversation that takes place on a computer. | show 🗑
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| Program that allows a user to connect to a chat server to participate in a chat session. | show 🗑
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| show | chat room
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| show | click
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| E-commerce that occurs when one consumer sells directly to another, such as in an online auction. | show 🗑
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| show | content aggregator
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| show | dial-up access
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| show | DNS server
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| Text version of an IP address. | show 🗑
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| show | domain name system (DNS)
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| show | downloading
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| show | DSL
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| A Web page that allows visitors to customize some or all of the viewed content. | show 🗑
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| Short for electronic commerce, a business transaction that occurs over an electronic network such as the Internet. | show 🗑
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| Short for electronic mail, the transmission of messages and files via a computer network. | show 🗑
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| Combination of a user name and a domain name that identifies a user so that he or she can receive Internet e-mail. | show 🗑
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| show | e-mail program
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| show | e-retail
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| A business transaction that occurs over an electronic network such as the Internet. | show 🗑
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| show | electronic mail
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| Online business a customer visits that contains product descriptions, graphics, and a shopping cart. | show 🗑
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| Symbols used on the Internet to express emotion. | show 🗑
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| show | FAQ
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| show | favorite
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| Technology that uses fiber-optic cables to provide high-speed Internet access to home and business users. | show 🗑
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| show | file
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| show | fixed wireless
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| show | flame wars
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| show | flames
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| show | FTP
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| show | FTP server
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| Graphics format that uses compression techniques to reduce file sizes. | show 🗑
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| Digital representation of nontext information such as a drawing, chart, or photo. See also graphical image. | show 🗑
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| Digital representation of nontext information such as a drawing, chart, or photo. See also graphic. | show 🗑
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| Generic TLD (top-level domain). | show 🗑
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| Web page names displayed by a search engine that contain the search text specified by a user. | show 🗑
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| show | home page
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| show | host
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| Wireless network that provides Wi-Fi Internet connections to mobile computers and devices. | show 🗑
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| A set of rules that defines how pages transfer on the Internet. See also Hypertext Transfer Protocol. | show 🗑
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| Built-in connection to another related Web page or part of a Web page. See also link. | show 🗑
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| Web page content consisting of text-based links combined with graphic, audio, and video links. | show 🗑
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| show | hypertext
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| show | Hypertext Transfer Protocol
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| show | ICANN
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| show | instant messaging (IM)
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| Software used by people to participate in instant messaging. | show 🗑
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| show | Internet
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| show | Internet backbone
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| show | Internet telephony
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| A number that uniquely identifies each computer or device connected to the Internet. | show 🗑
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| show | IPv6
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| show | ISP (Internet service provider)
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| Joint Photographic Experts Group; format that compresses graphics to reduce their file size. | show 🗑
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| show | keyword (searching)
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| Built-in connection to another related Web page or part of a Web page. Short for hyperlink. | show 🗑
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| show | m-commerce
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| Group of e-mail names and addresses given a single name. Also called an e-mail list or a distribution list. | show 🗑
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| Specific type of online social network that enables members to share media such as photos, music, and videos. | show 🗑
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| Popular Web-based type of discussion group that does not require a newsreader. | show 🗑
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| show | microblog
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| show | microbrowser
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| show | MP3
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| Popular video compression standard. | show 🗑
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| Moving Pictures Experts Group. | show 🗑
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| Current version of a popular video compression standard. | show 🗑
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| show | multimedia
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| show | national ISP
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| Worldwide collection of networks that links millions of businesses, government agencies, educational institutions, and individuals. See also Internet. | show 🗑
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| show | netiquette
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| show | newsgroup
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| Program necessary for participating in a newsgroup. | show 🗑
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| show | NSFnet
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| E-commerce method that allows consumers to bid on an item being sold by someone else. | show 🗑
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| Web site that joins a specific group of people with similar interests or relationships. | show 🗑
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| Company that provides Internet access as well as many members-only features. | show 🗑
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| Web site that encourages members in its online community to share their interests, ideas, stories, photos, music, and videos with other registered users. See also social networking Web site. | show 🗑
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| show | player
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| Program that extends the capability of a browser; often used to enhance multimedia. See also add-on. | show 🗑
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| show | PNG
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| show | podcast
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| Latest version of Post Office Protocol. | show 🗑
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| show | portal
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| show | Post Office Protocol
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| Request information from a Web server. | show 🗑
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| Process of a Web server sending content to a computer at regular intervals, such as current sport scores or weather reports. | show 🗑
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| show | real time
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| show | Really Simple Syndication
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| Internet service provider that usually provides Internet access to a specific geographic area. | show 🗑
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| Organization that sells and manages domain names. | show 🗑
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| Really Simple Syndication. Specification that content aggregators use to distribute content to subscribers. | show 🗑
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| Provides high-speed Internet connections via satellite to a satellite dish that communicates with a satellite modem. | show 🗑
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| Program that finds Web sites, Web pages, images, videos, news, maps, and other information related to a specific topic. | show 🗑
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| show | search query
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| Word or phrase entered in a search engine’s text box that describes the item you want to find. See also search query. | show 🗑
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| Element of an electronic storefront that allows a customer to collect purchases. | show 🗑
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| Acronym for simple mail transfer protocol; communications protocol used by some outgoing mail servers. | show 🗑
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| show | social networking Web site
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| Unsolicited e-mail message or newsgroups posting sent to many recipients or newsgroups at once. | show 🗑
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| show | spider
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| Message that reveals a solution to a game or ending to a movie or program. | show 🗑
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| A fixed Web page where visitors all see the same content. | show 🗑
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| show | streaming
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| show | streaming audio
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| Transfer of video data in a continuous and even flow, which allows users to view longer or live video images as they are downloaded. | show 🗑
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| show | subject directory
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| Process of a user adding his or her e-mail name and address to a mailing list. | show 🗑
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| show | surfing the Web
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| show | tabbed browsing
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| show | thread
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| Group of newsgroup articles consisting of the original article and all subsequent related replies. See also thread. | show 🗑
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| Small version of a larger graphic. | show 🗑
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| Identifies the type of organization associated with the domain. | show 🗑
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| show | traffic
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| Unique address for a Web page. See also URL or Web address. | show 🗑
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| Process of a user removing his or her e-mail name and address from a mailing list. | show 🗑
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| show | uploading
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| Unique address for a Web page. See also Uniform Resource Locator or Web address. | show 🗑
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| Unique combination of characters, such as letters of the alphabet and/or numbers, that identifies a specific user. | show 🗑
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| Images displayed in motion. | show 🗑
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| Blog that contains video clips. | show 🗑
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| show | virtual reality (VR)
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| show | vlog
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| Short for vlog author. | show 🗑
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| show | vlogosphere
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| Technology that allows users to speak to other users over the Internet using their desktop computer, mobile computer, or mobile device. See also Internet telephony or VoIP. | show 🗑
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| Technology that allows users to speak to other users over the Internet using their desktop computer, mobile computer, or mobile device. See also Internet telephony or Voice over IP. | show 🗑
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| 3-D environment that contains infinite space and depth created with special VR software. | show 🗑
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| show | Web
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| show | Web 2.0
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| Unique address for a Web page. See also URL and Uniform Resource Locator. | show 🗑
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| show | Web app
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| show | Web application
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| Application software that allows users to access and view Web pages. See also browser. | show 🗑
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| show | Web page
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| show | Web publishing
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| Computer that delivers requested Web pages to a computer. | show 🗑
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| Collection of related Web pages and associated items stored on a Web server. | show 🗑
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| show | Weblog
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| show | WebSlices
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| Short for wireless fidelity. Type of broadband Internet connection that uses radio signals to provide high-speed Internet connections to compatible or properly equipped wireless computers and devices. | show 🗑
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| show | wiki
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| Company that provides wireless Internet access to desktop and notebook computers and mobile devices. | show 🗑
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| show | wireless portal
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| See wireless Internet service provider. | show 🗑
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| Worldwide collection of electronic documents. See also Web or WWW. | show 🗑
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| Consortium of nearly 400 organizations from around the world that oversees research and sets standards and guidelines for many areas of the Internet. | show 🗑
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| Worldwide collection of electronic documents. See also Web or World Wide Web. | show 🗑
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