Editing Wide area information server (section)

==Directory of Servers==
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Thinking Machines Corp provided a service called the Directory of Servers. It was a WAIS server like any other information source except containing information about the other WAIS servers on the Internet. A WAIS server with TMC WAIS code creates a special record containing [[metadata]] plus some common words describing its indexed content. The record is uploaded to the central server and indexed along with the records from other public servers. The directory can be searched to find servers that might have content relevant to a specific field of interest. This model of searching for (WAIS) servers to search became the model for [[Government Information Locator Service|GILS]] and Peter Deutsch's [[WHOIS++]] [[Distributed computing|distributed]] [[white pages]] [[directory service|directory]].