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- libwww
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
The library (collection) of WWW-related program modules
available for free use by anyone since the start of the Web.
- line-mode
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
In high and far-off times, people did not see computer programs
through windows. They typed commands on a terminal, and the
computer replied with text, which was displayed on the screen (or
printed on a roll of paper) interleaved with the commands, much as
though the person were in a chat session with the computer program.
If you have seen a "DOS window," then you have some idea of how
people did their communicating with computers in those days, before
they learned how to drag and drop. Line-mode is still a very
respectable way to communicate with a computer.
A Web client that communicated with the user in line-mode and
could run all kinds of computers that did not have windows or mice.
- line-mode browser
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
A Web client that communicated with the user in line-mode and
could run all kinds of computers that did not have windows or mice.
- link
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
A reference from one document to another (external link), or
from one location in the same document to another (internal link),
that can be followed efficiently using a computer. The unit of
connection in hypertext.
- MARC record
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
A standard for machine-readable library catalogue cards.
- meta-
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
A prefix to indicate something applied to itself; for example,
a metameeting is a meeting about meetings.
- metadata
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
Data about data on the Web, including but not limited to
authorship, classification, endorsement, policy, distribution
terms, IPR, and so on. A significant use for the Semantic Web.
- micropayments
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
Technology allowing one to pay for Web site access in very
small amounts as one browses.
- minimal constraint, principle of
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
The idea that engineering or other designs should define only
what they have to, leaving other aspects of the system and other
systems as unconstrained as possible.
- MIT (Massachusetts institute of technology)
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
See
LCS. Cohost of W3C. mobile devices
Pagers, phones, handheld computers, and so on. All are
potentially mobile Internet devices and Web clients.
- mosaic
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
A Web browser developed by Marc Andreessen, Eric Bina, and
their colleagues at
NCSA
.
- NCSA (National center for supercomputing applications)
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
A center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
whose software development group created
Mosaic
.
- nelson, ted
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
Coiner of the word hypertext; guru and visionary. By
coincidence, Ted is currently (1999) at
Keio
University
- net
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
- neXT
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
Name of the company started by Steve Jobs, and of the computer
it manufactured, that integrated many novelties such as the Mach
kernel, Unix, NeXTStep, Objective-C, drag-and-drop application
builders, optical disks, and digital signal processors. The
development platform I used for the first Web client.
- NNTP (Network news transfer protocol)
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
A protocol that defines how news articles are passed around
between computers. Each computer passes an article to any of its
neighbors that have not yet got it.
- node
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
Thing joined by links. In the Web, a node is a Web page, any
resource with a URI.
- open source
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
Software whose source code is freely distributed and modifiable
by anyone. W3C sample code is open source software. A trademark of
opensource.org, a relatively newcom
- packet
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
A unit into which information is divided for transmission
across the Internet.
- partial understanding
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
The ability to understand part of the import of a document that
uses multiple vocabularies, some but not all of which are
understood.
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