WhatIs...?

Looking for a technological explanation?

By Emma Kae - 3rd May 2001 - Back to News

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Have you ever spent hours looking for a particular description, only to get lost in the web wide jargon and give up? Well, next time you are searching for an encyclopedic definition of an information technology term, go no further than WhatIs.com

WhatIs.com is a “knowledge exploration tool (specialising in) information technology, especially about the Internet and computers” (Source: WhatIs.com). There are over 3,000 individual topics for you to search and discover with approximately 12,000 links to cross-reference material between topics and to other sites for further information.

For a website that began as a marked page on a dining room table, WhatIs.com is an incredibly comprehensive website that is extremely informative and very simple to use. You can search a particular topic or simply subscribe to “Word-of the Day” and grow your knowledge piece by piece. Cool features include: The Fast Guide to Tutorials and Training (links to the best web resources for information technology training); The International System of Units Page (measurements for expressing the magnitudes or quantities of seven important natural phenomena); and Every File Format in the World (a database of file name extensions or suffixes that indicate the format or usage of a file).

WhatIs.com is well worth your exploration time. To have a look-see, simply click here.

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