World Wide Web Consortium, an international consortium of companies involved with the Internet and the Web. The W3C was founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee, the original architect of the World Wide Web. The organization's purpose is to develop open standards so that the Web evolves in a single direction rather than being splintered among competing factions. The W3C is the chief standards body for HTTP and HTML.
See waveform/waveform sound.
A feature on more expensive sound cards which samples and digitizes the sound from real instruments and stores it in ROM banks on the sound card. For example, when your software tells the sound card to play a tuba, it's actually using the captured sound of a tuba.
A waveform is a graphic representation of a sound, as viewed through an oscilloscope, a device that charts the magnitude, or loudness, of all frequencies of sound versus time. A "waveform sound" or "waveform file" (one with a .wav or .au extension or "aiff" label) is a digital audio file of a waveform that is basically a plot of the waveform's shape. This plot is decoded by a digital-to-analog converter to resurrect the original waveform and sound. Such files are similar to Compact Disc audio files, and are capable of very high fidelity, but they tend to take up a lot of disk space.
A program that allows a computer to display hypertext documents and navigate from one site to another on the World Wide Web. Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Explorer are currently the most popular browsers, but others are available. If you're reading this, you have a Web browser. Enjoy.
In World Wide Web usage, a server is a program (and, colloquially, the computer on which it runs) that accepts HTTP requests and sends out Web pages. The site you're viewing now, like all others, resides on a Web server.
Winamp is a skinnable, multi-format, freeware audio player made by Nullsoft, part of Time Warner. Winamp was first released by Justin Frankel in 1997. For more info, visit their site.
Microsoft Windows is a range of closed source proprietary commercial operating environments for personal computers and servers. The range was first introduced by Microsoft in 1985 and eventually has come to dominate the world personal computer market. All recent versions of Windows are fully-fledged operating systems
Windows Media Player is a free software media player used for playing audio and video on personal computers running Microsoft Windows. Microsoft has also made available versions for other operating systems including Pocket PC, Mac OS, and Solaris. These tend to lag behind the Windows versions in features, software update frequency, and the number of file formats supported. The basic file formats are WMV (Windows Media Video & Audio), WMA (Windows Media Audio), and ASF (Audio Structured File). Obtain more info at their site.
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