Chapter 2 - The Internet and World Wide Web
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| Business that provides individuals and organizations access to the Internet free or for a fee. | show 🗑
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| show | add-on
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| List of names and e-mail addresses, created and stored by a user. Also called contacts folder. | show 🗑
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| show | animated GIF
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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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| show | ARPA
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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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| show | Atom
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| show | audio
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| Informal Web site consisting of time-stamped articles, or posts, in a diary or journal format, usually listed in reverse chronological order. Short for Web log. | show 🗑
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| Author of a Weblog. | show 🗑
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| Worldwide collection of blogs. | show 🗑
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| Saved Web address that you access by clicking its name in a list. See also favorite. | show 🗑
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| High-speed Internet connection provided through cable, DSL, fiber, radio signals, or satellite. | show 🗑
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| Application software that allows users to access and view Web pages. See also Web browser. | show 🗑
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| show | buddies
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| show | business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce
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| The sale of goods and services to the general public. | show 🗑
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| High-speed Internet access provided through the cable television network via a cable modem. | show 🗑
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| Country code TLD (top-level domain). | show 🗑
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| show | cellular radio network
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| Real-time typed conversation that takes place on a computer. | show 🗑
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| show | chat client
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| show | chat room
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| show | click
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| show | consumer-to-consumer (C2C) e-commerce
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| Business that gathers and organizes Web content and then distributes, or feeds, the content to subscribers for free or a fee. | show 🗑
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| Internet access that takes place when the modem in your computer connects to the Internet via a standard telephone line that transmits data and information using an analog (continuous wave pattern) signal. | show 🗑
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| show | DNS server
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| show | domain name
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| Method that the Internet uses to store domain names and their corresponding IP addresses. | show 🗑
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| Process of a computer receiving information, such as a Web page, from a server on the Internet. | show 🗑
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| show | DSL
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| show | dynamic Web page
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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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| show | e-mail address
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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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| show | electronic storefront
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| Symbols used on the Internet to express emotion. | show 🗑
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| show | FAQ
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| Saved Web address that you access by clicking its name in a list. See also bookmark. | show 🗑
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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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| Named unit of storage. | show 🗑
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| show | fixed wireless
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| Exchanges of flames using the Internet. | show 🗑
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| Abusive or insulting messages sent using the Internet. | show 🗑
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| show | FTP
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| show | FTP server
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| show | GIF
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| show | graphic
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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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| First page that a Web site displays. | show 🗑
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| show | host
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| show | hot spots
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| show | http
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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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| show | hypermedia
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| show | hypertext
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| A set of rules that defines how pages transfer on the Internet. See also http. | show 🗑
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| Acronym for Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers; group that assigns and controls top-level domains. | show 🗑
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| Real-time Internet communications service that notifies a user when one or more people are online and then allows the user to exchange messages or files or join a private chat room with those people. | show 🗑
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| show | instant messenger
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| show | Internet
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| show | Internet backbone
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| Technology that allows users to speak to other users over the Internet. See also Voice over IP (Internet Protocol) or VoIP. | show 🗑
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| show | IP address
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| show | IPv6
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| show | ISP (Internet service provider)
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| show | JPEG
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| show | keyword (searching)
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| show | link
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| E-commerce that takes place using mobile devices. | show 🗑
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| show | mailing list
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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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| Blog that allows users to publish short messages, usually between 100 and 200 characters, for others to read. | show 🗑
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| show | microbrowser
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| Format that reduces an audio file to about one-tenth of its original size, while preserving much of the original quality of the sound. | show 🗑
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| Popular video compression standard. | show 🗑
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| show | MPEG
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| show | MPEG-4
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| show | multimedia
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| Internet service provider that provides Internet access in cities and towns nationwide. | show 🗑
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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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| Short for Internet etiquette, the code of acceptable behaviors users should follow while on the Internet. | show 🗑
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| Online area in which users have written discussions about a particular subject. | show 🗑
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| show | newsreader
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| The National Science Foundation’s network of five supercomputers. | show 🗑
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| show | online auction
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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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| Graphics format that improves upon the GIF format. | show 🗑
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| show | podcast
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| Latest version of Post Office Protocol. | show 🗑
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| Web site that offers a variety of Internet services from a single, convenient location. | show 🗑
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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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| Specification that content aggregators use to distribute content to subscribers. See also RSS 2.0. | show 🗑
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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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| show | search engine
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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 text. | show 🗑
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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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| show | spam
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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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| show | static Web page
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| show | streaming
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| Transfer of audio data in a continuous and even flow, which allows users to listen to the audio file as it downloads. | show 🗑
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| show | streaming video
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| show | subject directory
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| show | subscribe
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| show | surfing the Web
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| Option where the top of the browser displays a tab (similar to a file folder tab) for each Web page you open. | show 🗑
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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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| show | top-level domain (TLD)
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| show | traffic
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| show | Uniform Resource Locator
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| show | unsubscribe
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| Process of transferring documents, graphics, and other objects from a computer to a server on the Internet. | show 🗑
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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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| Video blog. | show 🗑
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| show | vlogger
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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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| show | VoIP
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| show | VR world
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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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| Electronic document on the Web, which can contain text, graphics, animation, audio, and video and often has built-in connections to other documents. | show 🗑
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| Development and maintenance of Web pages. | show 🗑
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| Computer that delivers requested Web pages to a computer. | show 🗑
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| show | Web site
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| Informal Web site consisting of time-stamped articles, or posts, in a diary or journal format, usually listed in reverse chronological order. See also blog. | show 🗑
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| show | WebSlices
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| show | Wi-Fi
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| Collaborative Web site that allows users to create, add to, modify, or delete the Web site content via their Web browser. | show 🗑
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| Company that provides wireless Internet access to desktop and notebook computers and mobile devices. | show 🗑
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| Portal designed for Internet-enabled mobile devices. | show 🗑
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| show | WISP
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| show | World Wide Web
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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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