A style sheet language, like CSS, but also allowing document transformation. The XSL home page

Ted Nelson's planned global hypertext project. @

The X Window system, invented by Bob Scheifler; a standard interface between a program and a screen that was ubiquitous on Unix systems. Unlike Microsoft's Windows, from the beginning X allowed p [..]

(three words; also known as WWW) The set of all information accessible using computers and networking, each unit of information identified by a URI.

A distributed information system designed by Brewster Kahle while at Thinking Machines. WAIS was like a Web of search engines, but without hypertext. @.

A domain of W3C that attempts to ensure the use of the Web by anyone regardless of disability. The Web Accessinility Initiative

An idea for 3D compositional graphics on the Web, proposed by Dave Raggett as "Virtual Reality Markup Language," and implemented by Mark Pesce as a variant of Silicon Graphics's "I [..]

Hypertext that is generated from its URI by a program, rather than by recourse to a stored file. This was my name for the idea. The CERN phone book was the first example, in 1991. It is sometimes diff [..]

An interpreted computer language (like Java) developed by Pei Wei at the University of Berkeley. Also, a Web browser built using Viola. An early review I wrote of Viola

The string (often starting with http:) that is used to identify anything on the Web. About URIs, URLs and URNs Axioms of Web Architecture: URIs - TBL Universal Resource Identifiers in WWW An informati [..]