... Microsoft, a company that really looks into the future in order to stay ahead of the competition, said the Internet is one part of the computer business that he really underestimated. As one of the richest men in the world, I doubt if he makes too many mistakes. Nobody could have ... probably the reason why troubles are rising about the dependability of the web. As usage soars, (some estimate there will be rove eighty million users by the end of 1997) could the Internet overload? Even though no one predicted the popularity of the net, some are quick to foresee ... As mentioned above, sp...

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... communicate with another computer on the Internet, both computers must be connected to the Internet. Connection to the Internet can come from commercial online services or through Internet service providers. Generally, home users connect to the Internet via the commercial online services over regular phone lines. Some of these services include Prodigy, CompuServe, and America Online. Businesses, universities, ... Wide Web (WWW) is a worldwide system of computers and files. Over the World Wide Web, users have access to large quantities of data. This data comes from sources including mag...

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... 1.7 million host computers around the world. The basis of connecting all these computers together is by the use of ordinary telephone wires. Users are then directly joined to other computer users at there own will for a small connection fee per month. The connection conveniently includes unlimited access to over a million web sites twenty ... can sell products on-line very effectively. It is just as simple as making a selection at a regular store, only you are using the computer and probably using a credit card as the method of payment. Depending on how developed and advanced the companie...

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... 1.7 million host computers around the world. The basis of connecting all these computers together is by the use of ordinary telephone wires. Users are then directly joined to other computer users at there own will for a small connection fee per month. The connection conveniently includes unlimited access to over a million web sites twenty ... can sell products on-line very effectively. It is just as simple as making a selection at a regular store, only you are using the computer and probably using a credit card as the method of payment. Depending on how developed and advanced the companie...

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... product you want, you then select what style you want which might include more than a dozen types. After selecting what style you want, users are swarmed with product information including what colors and sizes are available. Ordering an item includes filling out the basic forms needed to bill and ... I liked the Web site for Dell computers very much. Product presentation was very thorough because for every computer you purchase, you get to specify what options you want on your computer. Users can view what computers are available and what specials they are currently running. Order entr...

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... public would start to see use in every day life for the Internet. In 1979, two Duke University graduate students created USENET newsgroups. These newsgroups were digital bulletin boards, allowing users from around the globe to post and respond to messages on discussion forums on various topics. By 1983 all computers connected to ARPA had to begin using a new protocol for ... disable other computers, made its way thru out the Internet. The worm took 10% of the roughly 60,000 Internet hosts off line (Abatte, 2000). The new world of linked computer users would have to learn the terms hacke...

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... bit worn-out. Investors have seemed to abandon it. Analysts worry that nothing is coming to it. To many users, what was radical just years ago may be becoming monotonous. But the computer industry is looking to change all that. On the horizon, there's a new wave of the Internet beginning to break ... . For most users, the Internet experience will change dramatically over the next year or two. The hope for ... these changes is that the developments will reunite the industry. Up to this point, the Net has been almost entirely about viewing content or buying products over the Web through a...

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... cookies" from being received but it prevents vital information from being sent to them. Some times, all the cookie does is record, on the users computer, without consent, information such as the number of times that the site has been accessed by the user. More sophisticated versions can access information ... found that one ISP administrator in the United States of America would "get his kicks" out of reading the e-mail sent and received by users of the ISP. His unlawful actions set another precedent and since then this problem, although not altogether gone, has been greatly reduced. A n...

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... to their customers, suppliers, partners and investors. The Internet's open architecture allows new relationships, channels and ways of doing business among manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers, service providers and end-users. These relationships are beginning to challenge the traditional distribution structure that dominated 20th century commerce, sometimes with great success and sometimes with no success. Equally important, information developed by ... have also raised a new issue of trademarks appearing in keyword identifiers. Meta tags are used in keyword searches by most of the...

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... to aficionados, the Availability of cheap, accessible and easy-to-use Net access points throughout the world has seen the number of global Internet users increase dramatically each month. While the convenience of electronic mail was initial catalyst for Internet growth world wide, it's the emergence of the ... in what many consider as a frustrating method called 'spamming' whereby messages concerning products or business information were sent at random to Internet users e-mail addresses. This crude form of ad vertising can be likened to common junkmail found in a postbox among things of ...

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... our site more accessible to customers with screen readers and talking Web browsers", which is a very positive option. Download time, always a number one concern for users, for this site is moderate. As long as the majority of the people visiting the web site are using at least a 56K modem, then download time ... is not a significant issue since it took my computer about 15 seconds to load and users lose interest after about 20 seconds. Navigating around the site is simple, when using a graphical browser. On the home page they have ... personal products, and accessories for all ages, th...

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... form of media". He attests that this new technology, the Internet, "has allowed Salon magazine to appear on tens and sometimes hundreds of thousands of people's computer screens every morning." This online magazine has a following of 1.7 million readers a month. The Internet allows a journalist to be a bit more adventurous in their ... The Internet is being used more and more by every age group. According to Table 2, the 18-25-age bracket is the second highest in users of the Internet. This is due to the high levels of children being born with a mouse in their hands. The next group is the...

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The right to privacy on the internet is a serious issue facing society. Some users of the internet wish to shield their identities while participating in frank discussions of sensitive topics while others fulfill fantasies ... who avoid law enforcement authorities through anonymous mailings and postings. Most users are concerned about the proliferation of information on the internet. For example, users of the internet feel that the Google website invades their privacy to an extreme extent. The users have discovered that if you type your phone number, including your ... anywhere in the world,...

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... is growing up (annex 2), we can assume that most people have no experience in e-business. The audience can be both good Internet users and beginners. Dealing with communication interaction Security The World Wide Web is the fastest growing part of the Internet. Increasingly, it is also ... is received or collected. It is one that supports their privacy and will not subvert browser to download viruses or other rogue programs onto their computer For a company, a secure web server is resistant to a determined attack over the Internet or from corporate insiders. In order to increase securit...

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... provide entertainment to the user with interesting sites or online games. There are endless things to do online. You can also "chat" with other users and it can be a place to meet new people. The most widely used code on the Internet, HyperText Mark-up Language (HTML), is ... on some televisions has only a small range of colours and cannot support clear images; it does not have the memory for as many pixels as a computer. There are also many disadvantages of the Internet. The Internet does provide downloads but some of these downloads may infringe copyright rulings. The best example of ...

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... images, animations and other art pieces. The other side is filled with words, alien looking phrases, numbers and letters that look like a computer tossed salad. Web page designers need both right and left brain talents. You must be creative, imaginative and have the ability to use ... 500 , a small bookstore and a non-profit organization all at the same time. Each of which would require a very different image to appeal to their particular users. On the other hand, you could find a permanent job with salary and benefits. Most of these jobs require experience. You"ll have to find an intern...

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... 2251-2256). On November 18, 1988, the United States Congress enacted the Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act (U.S Code: Title 18, Section 2251-2256) that made it unlawful to use a computer to transmit advertisements or visual depictions of child pornography and it prohibited the buying, selling, or otherwise obtaining temporary custody or control of children for the purpose of producing child ... depictions of child pornography that were mailed or shipped in Interstate or foreign commerce or that was produced using materials that were mailed or shipped by any means, including...

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... songs but entire albums. However the combination of music and the Internet has caused a great controversy. Simplistically, the issue of Internet music distribution concerns three groups of people the Internet users who download music, the organizations and individuals who distribute music through Internet sites, and lastly the artists and their record companies, record manufactures and music stores. As the Internet ... users generally argue, Internet music distribution has numerous advantages. Even novice Internet users can now access the virtually any songs ever written in a matter of ...

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... Web page or move on to someone else's Web page. {PAUSE} E. The 2nd Web page was one of the hundreds of templates that are offered for free to users all over the Internet. 1. One of the most popular sites and most selection is www.freewebtemplates.com. a. For those of you that don't know what a template is ... . 1. So for example if I wanted my Web page called "Steve," I would name the file "Steve.html". D. Saving your work in a HTML extension enables your computer to recognize your Web page as an Internet document and will load it through a web browser such as Internet Explorer. E. Now th...

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... Web page or move on to someone else's Web page. {PAUSE} E. The 2nd Web page was one of the hundreds of templates that are offered for free to users all over the Internet. 1. One of the most popular sites and most selection is www.freewebtemplates.com. a. For those of you that don't know what a template is ... . 1. So for example if I wanted my Web page called "Steve," I would name the file "Steve.html". D. Saving your work in a HTML extension enables your computer to recognize your Web page as an Internet document and will load it through a web browser such as Internet Explorer. E. Now th...

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... 's popularity is growing rapidly among businesses, there is still a great deal of confusion about the Internet and what it has to offer the business world. The Internet is a network of computer networks. It is made up of well over two-and-a-half million host computers and is growing at the rate of over two million new ... users each month. But beyond this, the Internet is a new and highly efficient way of accessing, organizing and sharing information. Connecting to the Internet and the World Wide Web can be ... the marketplace. Even these relatively simple sites on the Internet send a ...

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... research was how to construct networks that could withstand power outages in times of war (for instance nuclear attacks). The whole idea of these original networks was so that one computer could talk to another quickly and easily. For the first decade or so the ARPAnet was primarily used for e-mail, database access, file transfers and online discussion forums. In 1971 ... born. By 1990 a new Internet protocol was developed, this was called HTML and it allowed much more complex data such as graphics to be transmitted across cyberspace. This protocol allowed users to create web sites, thi...

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... . There are many web sites devoted to tourism such as the British Tourist Authority's www.visitbritain.com site. The number of Internet users shopping online for travel and leisure services doubled in 1999 to 27 million. Travel has beaten computer software to the number one spot as the preferred product to buy on the Internet. Although there has become a great demand for ... the famous sites of London. On clicking on Buckingham Palace this website takes to this destination and allows you to travel around looking at this site. The virtual tourist gets computer generated images that could ...

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... in your web browser. The problem with this is that most pornographic sites do not use adult verification systems. Even if they do, the material can still be sampled before users enter into the site. This is where the problems are; because of Internet pornography's popularity and the growth being so strong it is everywhere and has become hard to effectively ... since the program will not only scan the page the entire site itself. Sites will be censored by a certain code that is relayed to the computer when the Internet navigator tries to enter the site. The computer will send a request a...

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... with the sophisticated educational technology now available" (Tomei, 1996, p. 53). After all, statistics already indicate that "people learn 30% more in 40% less time at 30% less cost by using computer-assisted tools" (Computers, 1998, p. 1). But if you"re anything like me, you"ll probably need more than just statistics to prompt you into replacing your trustworthy, although outdated training methods ... terms of use. However, we often either underestimate or take its training capabilities for granted. "Multimedia is one of the most flexible forms of individual training (books are the o...

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