What does WAIS stand for?

Wide Area Information Service

This definition appears very rarely and is found in the following Acronym Finder categories:

Information technology (IT) and computers

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Samples in periodicals archive:

SLIP: Serial Line Internet Protocol: one form of Internet connection SPIDER: indexing software that contains a search engine, a related database, and a document-retrieval system TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol - the main form of communicating on the net TELECOMMUTING: conducting work at home using a computer URL: Uniform Resource Locator - the address used to locate a particular document VERONICA: used with GOPHER to locate information on the net VIRTUAL COMMUNITY: another term for the Internet VOICE MAIL: a means of storing verbal messages on a computer disk WAIS: Wide Area Information Service - a tool contained in net databases used to locate information on the web WWW or [W.

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email, File Transfer Protocol (ftp), Wide Area Information Service (WAIS), et cetera) require some technical sophistication, or technically sophisticated software, to use properly and safely.

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In addition, they can study and download documents, data and images from thousands of Gopher sites and can search Wide Area Information Service (WAIS) databases at institutions around the globe.

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