WAIS WAIS stands for Wide Area Information Server. It then retrieves full text information from the one or more databases that you chose. These databases are located on a variety of different remote computers. Many WAIS databases can also be accessed via gopher or World Wide Web, both are described below. Gopherspace is a word used to described all the Gopher servers on the Internet.
Gopher is a powerful tool and gopherspace has a wealth of information.
See Gopher section in this guide. You may need to remember how to spell anonymous. See the FTP section in this guide. WWW is a Hypertext method used to link information together thorugh text and pages. It provides a convenient means to access the Internet.