Well I am pleased. I now understand the WAMP acronym.  The W stands for the operating system which in this case is Windows but could be any operating system the most common being Linux and Macintosh.  A is for Apache which is software that runs the server M is for MSQL which  communicates between the the server and the client and P is for PHP which is a programing language which interprets HTML into the data formats you see on the webpage.