Many ISP's also offer services such as web site building and virtual hosting. ... Your computer connects via modem over a regular old phone line to the ISP's computer, which in turn connects to the Internet backbone with a high-speed link and then routes data between your computer and the Internet backbone. ... I also found out that hosting accounted for almost 30 percent of all business revenues for ISPs. ... Companies such as Verio provide a common ASP scenario, virtual web hosting. These companies provide hardware, software, bandwidth and people to host Web sites for companies...

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files onto computer hard drives. ... Several of these companies used Orwellian computer software that was initially offered for only $99 and had the ability to screen and record every keystroke on the computer with video like precision. ... Another major concern within computer security is electronic attacks by computer hackers on government and business computers. ... Even though it may seem immediate, an e-mail message travels from one's computer to several computer hosts across the world before finally reaching its destination. At every stopping point, it could be intercepted and e...

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