Glossary
An incomprehensive encyclopedia of technology and design.
Every industry has its jargon. Here's what all of it actually means, in plain language, so you can make better decisions about your website.
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WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines)
WCAG is an internationally recognized set of guidelines developed by the W3C that provides standards for making web content accessible to people with disabilities, organized... Read more →
Web Ring Networks
Web rings were organized collections of websites linked together in circular fashion, where each site displayed navigation links to the "next" and "previous" sites in... Read more →
Web Rings
Web rings were circular networks of related websites that linked to each other in a chain, allowing visitors to navigate between sites with similar themes... Read more →
Web-Safe Colors
Web-safe colors were a palette of 216 colors that displayed consistently across different computer systems and browsers in the 1990s, when many users had monitors... Read more →
WebCrawler
WebCrawler was the first search engine to provide full-text search capabilities, launched in April 1994 by Brian Pinkerton at the University of Washington. Unlike earlier... Read more →
Website Vulnerability
Website vulnerabilities are security weaknesses in website code, configuration, or infrastructure that can be exploited by attackers to compromise data, functionality, or user safety through... Read more →
WebTV/MSN TV
WebTV was Microsoft's attempt to bring internet access to television sets through a dedicated set-top box, launched in 1996 and later rebranded as MSN TV.... Read more →
Webvan
Webvan was an online grocery delivery service that raised $1.2 billion in funding and built massive automated warehouses across multiple cities before consumers were ready... Read more →
WebVR and WebXR
WebVR and WebXR are web standards that enable virtual and mixed reality experiences directly through web browsers without requiring specialized apps or downloads, making immersive... Read more →
Windows Media Player
Windows Media Player was Microsoft's multimedia application bundled with Windows operating systems starting in 1991, becoming one of the most widely distributed media players through... Read more →