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Winsock

This is software required to control the modem when connecting to the internet and allows the computer to communicate using TCP/IP protocol

WINS

Stands for Windows Internet Naming Service

this refers to a system that works with a network of computers running windows and provides a database of IP addresses of each computer on the network

Whois

This refers to an Internet database it is used to find out the information about the owner of a particular domain name

Web server

This stores the collection of web pages that makeup a website

Workstation

Place where a computer user works

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WORM

Stands for Write Once, Read Many Times Memory

this refers to an optical disk storage system,and allows the user to write data to the disk once , but the user can then read the data from the disk many times

WYSIWYG

What you see is what YOU get
Output on the screen is exactly the same as the output on printout

WYSIAYG

What you see is what is ALL you get

Wide Area Network (WAN)

Operates over a large geographical location