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W
W3C World Wide Web Consortium
Founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee, this consortium's aim is to establish agreed standards for the Web so that it develops in a unified manner. It determines the specifications for many of the authoring languages used on the WWW.


Web see World Wide Web


Webmonkey
Webmonkey is a Web developer's resource webpage. Useful for tutorials and tips.


Web Server
A Web server is where a Web page and other data "resides" on the Internet. It is called a server because it "serves" or delivers Web pages when requested. It uses the HTTP protocol for Web pages, but other protocols may be used, such as FTP.


WebWise
BBC WebWise is an online course run by the BBC to teach all things Internet.


WWW World Wide Web
The World Wide Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 and is a hypertext driven system of pages made up of multimedia elements linked via the Internet.