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The OpenACS CMS is a content management system based on the OpenACS (Open Architecture Community System) toolkit, written in Tcl.

Tcl (Tool Command Language) is a scripting language originally created by John Ousterhout.

JavaScript is a lightweight, object-oriented, cross-platform scripting language, mainly used within web pages.

jQuery is a JavaScript library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating and Ajax interaction. Originally developed by John Resig.

Bootstrap is an open source HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework.

HTML5 is the fifth revision of the HTML standard.

UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode, which is backwards compatible with ASCII.

PNG (Portable Network Graphics) is a lossless compression image format, suitable to store graphics with uniformly colored areas, and originally introduced as a free, open-source successor of GIF.

GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is a lossless compression image format, originally introduced by CompuServe and suitable to store graphics, logos and simple animations.

External Cascading Style Sheets define style rules in a separate CSS file.

Embedded Cascading Style Sheets define a set of style rules in a <style> element within a web page.

Inline Cascading Style Sheets define style rules directly within an (X)HTML element using the style attribute.

Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm.

HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) defines a mechanism enabling web sites to declare themselves accessible only via secure connections.

The websites redirects visitors to its www subdomain, e.g. from example.com to www.example.com.

The websites redirects visitors to use SSL encryption, e.g. from http://example.com/ to https://example.com/.

IdenTrust is a SSL certificate authority.

A Twitter Button allows a Twitter user to post a tweet from the visited site.

AddThis is a social bookmarking and sharing service owned by Clearspring Technologies.

The jQuery CDN hosts copies of the jQuery library, provided by MaxCDN.

Google Analytics is a free service to get detailed statistics about the visitors of a website, provided by Google.

AOLserver is an open source web server by America Online.

Unix is a range of operating systems originally developed at Bell Labs. This contains Unix and Unix-like systems, such as Linux.

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