WOW.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Massive open online course - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course

    Poster, entitled "MOOC, every letter is negotiable", exploring the meaning of the words "massive open online course" A massive open online course (MOOC / m uː k /) or an open online course is an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the Web. [1]

  3. HTTPS - Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTPS

    To prepare a web server to accept HTTPS connections, the administrator must create a public key certificate for the web server. This certificate must be signed by a trusted certificate authority for the web browser to accept it without warning. The authority certifies that the certificate holder is the operator of the web server that presents it.

  4. Web content management system - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_content_management_system

    A web content management system (WCM or WCMS) is a software content management system (CMS) specifically for web content. [1] It provides website authoring, collaboration, and administration tools that help users with little knowledge of web programming languages or markup languages create and manage website content.

  5. List of forms of government - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_forms_of_government

    A form of government where the monarch is elected, a modern example being the King of Cambodia, who is chosen by the Royal Council of the Throne; Vatican City is also often considered a modern elective monarchy. Self-proclaimed monarchy: A form of government where the monarch claims a monarch title without a nexus to the previous monarch dynasty.

  6. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_Electrical...

    Although the AIEE was initially larger, the IRE attracted more students and was larger by the mid-1950s. [7] The AIEE and IRE merged in 1963. The IEEE is headquartered in New York City , but most business is done at the IEEE Operations Center [ 8 ] in Piscataway, New Jersey , opened in 1975.

  7. World Wide Web Consortium - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web_Consortium

    The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee after he left the European Organization for Nuclear Research in October 1994. [4] It was founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Laboratory for Computer Science with support from the European Commission, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which had pioneered the ARPANET, one of the ...

  8. URL - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL

    [4] [a] URLs occur most commonly to reference web pages (HTTP/HTTPS) but are also used for file transfer , email , database access , and many other applications. Most web browsers display the URL of a web page above the page in an address bar.

  9. HTTP - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP

    Some web applications need to manage user sessions, so they implement states, or server side sessions, using for instance HTTP cookies [46] or hidden variables within web forms. To start an application user session, an interactive authentication via web application login must be performed.