Wais
WAIS, or Wide Area Information Server, is a distributed information retrieval system and the protocol used to query it. It allowed searching across document collections distributed over a network. First released in the late 1980s, WAIS provided a framework to index, search, and retrieve text documents remotely.
The architecture centers on servers that hold indexes and data, and clients that form queries and present
History and impact: WAIS was one of the early systems that demonstrated distributed search across networks
Legacy: Today WAIS is largely of historical interest, cited as an early step in the evolution of