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WAIS

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(Wide Area Information Server) A database on the Internet that contains indexes to documents that reside on the Internet. Using the Z39.50 query language, text files can be searched based on keywords. Information resources on the Internet are called "sources." See Archie and Gopher.


WAIS - Wide Area Information Servers

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Continued recession and perhaps even complete disintegration of the WAIS within the present interglacial period could well be inevitable," concludes Conway's team.
AOL offers all the major attractions of the Internet, such as WWW, news groups, FTP, WAIS and Gopher server databases.
 
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