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Buchanan, William J.

doi:10.1007/978-1-349-14968-1_16

William J. Buchanan BSc (Hons.), CEng, PhD²

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The World-Wide Web (WWW) and the Internet have more jargon words and associated acronyms than anything else in modern life. Words, such as

gopher, ftp, telnet, TCP/IP stack, intranets, Web servers, clients, browsers, hypertext, URLs, Internet access providers, dial-up connections, UseNet servers, firewalls

have all become common in the business vocabulary.

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School of Computing, Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland
William J. Buchanan BSc (Hons.), CEng, PhD (Senior Lecturer)

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Buchanan, W.J. (1999). WWW. In: Mastering Microsoft Windows, Novell NetWare and UNIX. Macmillan Master Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14968-1_16

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