... used, whoever uses it is using a web browser. But what is a web browser? A web browser is a client program used to access and display documents from the World Wide Web (itep, 2003). The World Wide Web, or the Web for short, is a world full of information available at the click of a mouse. All that is needed to use it is an internet connection, a Web browser like Internet Explorer or Netscape ... in the early 1990s. Because of its graphical user interface, it was used on Macintosh computers and gave the popularity to the World Wide Web. Netscape Corporation introduced their first commerc...

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... how these features of interpreted languages are achieved. Contrasting JavaScript and VB Script JavaScript Formerly known as LiveScript, Netscape's simple, cross-platform, World-Wide Web scripting language, only very vaguely related to Java. JavaScript is intimately tied to the World-Wide Web, and currently runs in only three environments - as a server-side scripting language, as an embedded language in server-parsed HTML, and as ... and set-top boxes. Oak was unsuccessful so in 1995 Sun changed the name to Java and modified the language to take advantage of the ever popularity of the Wo...

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... we live is becoming based solely on computers as technology grows. Businesses have their organization's finances, records, and information on the World Wide Web (WWW). On this network formally called the Internet, any person with a home computer or even one at their place of business, ... distinguished and respectable newspaper. When there is a corporation of that magnitude, you expect that they have the best computer scientists on their staff developing web pages and databases that are more secure than Fort Knox. Well, there is a saying somewhere by someone that I cannot remember righ...

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In order to replace our current database interface with one that is accessed from a web client, we must choose between using an applet or script based system. An applet-based system would require that a compiled binary file be downloaded to and run on the client. ... be written in Java. This approach poses several problems. First, a Java compiler would need to be purchased. Secondly, compiled Java applets can be relatively large in size when compared to a web document containing scripts. This would use precious bandwidth on our links to our outlying branches. Lastly, Compiled Java can be res...

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... upgrade will give Windows Explorer (the function on Windows 95 similar to File Manager on Windows 3.1) integration with the World Wide Web and effectively make the web like any other file folder on the desktop. It will make it easy to browse the Web by allowing users to have favorite sites available at the click of a mouse, a history of sites visited, and a map of ... upgrade will give Windows Explorer (the function on Windows 95 similar to File Manager on Windows 3.1) integration with the World Wide Web and effectively make the web like any other file folder on the desktop. It will mak...

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... are a continuing and endless creation that can be found all over the Internet, which is why we call it the "World Wide Web." A. This World Wide Web continues to grow everyday with individuals, such as yourselves, deciding to join the internet community. B. There are many ways to become a part of this community, and one of the most ... as an HTML file. VII. The fourth step is uploading your Web page onto the Internet. Attn getter: Web pages are a continuing and endless creation that can be found all over the Internet, which is why we call it the "World Wide Web." Concluding Sentence: An...

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... born. By creating new software to change the way the Internet is viewed enabled Andreesen and Clark to capitalize on the popularity and uniqueness of the new and growing World Wide Web. II The newly formed Netscape Company became publicly traded in August 1995. On the first day of trading, shares soared to $71, after initially being offered at ... browser software called Netscape Navigator and a number of other software enhancements designed to extend its capabilities. Server products allow providers to create, organize, and present networked information including World Wide Web access ...

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... technology, unlike universities or junior colleges, admit the graduates of lower secondary schools. The purpose of universities, as the centers of advanced learning, is to provide students with wide-ranging knowledge and to conduct in-depth teaching and research in specialized academic disciplines. The term of study is usually four years. Upon completion, graduates are awarded a bachelors ... traffic to allowing different devices to communicate, each process has it's own designated technology. Network Professionals are responsible for installing, configuring, and operating Local Area N...

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... technology, unlike universities or junior colleges, admit the graduates of lower secondary schools. The purpose of universities, as the centers of advanced learning, is to provide students with wide-ranging knowledge and to conduct in-depth teaching and research in specialized academic disciplines. The term of study is usually four years. Upon completion, graduates are awarded a bachelors ... traffic to allowing different devices to communicate, each process has it's own designated technology. Network Professionals are responsible for installing, configuring, and operating Local Area N...

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... application services with support for multiple CPU architectures and built-in networking and communications options to deliver a rich, scalable open foundation for building a wide variety of products. Windows CE powers consumer electronic devices, Web terminals, Internet access appliances, specialized industrial controllers, mobile data acquisition handheld devices, and embedded communication devices. This highly modular platform allows developers to ... that make it easier for non-programmers to operate, for example X windows. There are several reasons many organizations have chosen Unix...

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... can only transfer files from other computers. Internet features of Linux also make it more popular. Since it was developed on the Internet, it has wide support for Internet tools and protocols. A free e-mail software called Pine comes with Linux. It was developed at the University of Washington and it ... program. There is also a free software program called Telnet, which lets you connect a computer with its IP number to the Internet. The famous web browser Netscape comes with Linux free as well. It has all properties of the Netscape Navigator that is used on Windows and is as easy to .....

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... living through an age of computers for a short while now, and there are already many people worldwide that are computer literate. According to Using Computers: A Gateway to Information World Wide Web Edition, "over 250 million Personal Computers (PC's) were in use by 1995, and one out of every three homes had a PC" (Shelly, Cashman, & Waggoner, 1996 ... media are known as hypermedia. Hypermedia is accessed through hypertext links, which are pointers to the computer where the hypermedia is stored. The World Wide Web (WWW) is the collection of these hypertext links throughout the Internet....

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... structure was changed to a pooled resource structure where IT staff people were grouped by functional areas (such as mainframe support group, pc support group, web applications, etc). The IT structure was no longer hierarchical and the work was no longer handed down in a top down approach thus creating a ... system should have flexible interfaces and need to communicate work status and results back to the requester in a medium that is accessible company wide. Another main requirement is that the system can be implemented quickly and should be flexible enough to easily add features in the ...

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... we can tell that for sure just by looking at his fortune. There are however people who not only despise him, but dedicate entire web-sites to criticizing him and his company; if you are one of those people you can check out www.onmacon.com (access will ... shift focus towards the Internet. It is during that period that the very familiar Internet Explorer comes out on the market; Explorer is Microsoft's world wide web browser, and the name for a set of Internet-based technologies that provide browsing, email, collaboration and multimedia. It's now a four-year old ... harsh criticism from ...

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... has support for DHTML and XML. This offers a powerful platform for the development of highly scalable end-to-end e-commerce and line-of-business Web applications. The reason I would like Windows 2000 rather than 98 is because it is geared directly toward the Internet. Windows 98 would actually ... of talented programmers working from all over the world. Linux works on almost every kind of computer, and provides a robust platform for a wide variety of applications. One of the features that made Linux so popular is that it gives the user complete control over the system. The ... or meet ...

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... intended format for display on a recipient's monitor or printer. Real-time is a communication in which interaction between parties takes place simultaneously. Search Engine is a web-based software tool that searches for and returns documents on the Web based on specified keywords. Threaded Discussions are asynchronous online conversations consisting of a series, or threads, of linked messages. Uniform Resource Locator is the address of ... on Demand is the delivery of digital movies via cable, telephone, or wireless where the user has the ability to start and stop the movie at any time....

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... members of the team to obtain information on Windows CE, Windows XP and Linux. The plan to find this information involved searching the World Wide Web for articles and websites containing the features of each of the operating systems over the course of 3 weeks. Each week we researched a ... upon initial installation, the operating system's graphic user interface, programming languages used to create new applications and the operating system's installation. This wide range of applications do have one thing in common, they can be available to the user by the time the operating system is co...

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... But it is a real effect and a real improvement. The government believes Microsoft's efforts to monopolize the market for Internet browsers could have an wide-ranging impact in the networked world. If most people accessed the Internet with Microsoft software, some critics of the company suggest that it could control ... who used oil would always be back for more at some point (3). Even worse for Microsoft, operating systems may have hit their zenith as Web-based applications are gaining in popularity. The computer industry and the Internet are changing so rapidly that it's impossible to te...

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... gift suggestions. b. (Amazon.com) I believe that the Amazon site offers the best description of products. The products are displayed with great graphics and very wide-ranging descriptions. Amazon offers more products than most other internet sites on the market today. Amazon offers products ranging from toys to cloths to books. Amazon ... site provides the NASDAQ running stock quote for Amazon. The stock ticker for Amazon is "AMZN". Case 2. I have personally reviewed all three of the following Web browsers and prepared this document. 1. Netscape 7.01. Netscape has been around the browser...

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... are populated on a SQL server onsite. Several different programming languages are used to allow end-user access to the databases. Some programs are web-based, and developers use Active Server Pages (ASP), HyperText Markup Language (HTML), as well as Java to create user-friendly interfaces. Others ... using VB for Applications (VBA). These languages were chosen for their ease of use and flexibility across platforms. Oracle is used for enterprise-wide information management. OWE has recently established Oracle as a standard for sharing data across sites. Oracle was chosen for its reliabil...

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... 2000) out of his South Dakota barn. 1990 Microsoft introduces Windows 3.0 which, like Macintosh, features windows, icons, and pull-down menus. Apple sues Microsoft for copyright infringement. 1991 The World Wide Web (an Internet system) is invented. 1993 Intel introduces its first of several Pentium chips, which greatly speeds up computing. The courts reject Apple's claim that Microsoft violated its copyrights on ... MB of memory. -It would take one person with a calculator 10 million years to tabulate the number of calculations that ASCI White can handle in a single second. -If deploye...

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... or leasing software over the internet. Companies that make software available for rental are called application service providers. Instead of buying and installing a software application, a user logs onto the product's Web site, rents the program for a fee, and uses Software that a use some combination of speech, text, still graphics, animation, moving pictures, and sounds is known as multimedia. Today, multimedia elements ... are often incorporated into ordinary documents, into business and education presentations, and into pages placed on the World Wide Web. Many software programs tod...

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... to be used a business tool instead of just something to type and play videogames Justin Pryor Page 2 on. Although it was also the year Atari made their name known world wide in the video game industry. This was a very productive year for the PC because Epson also created the first dot matrix printer. A new type of software was introduced to the ... . Over the next few years nothing really worth mentioning happened besides Windows starting to dominate the industry as far as operating systems go. It was in 1995 when the World Wide Web really caught the publics eye. Of course Windows 95 shi...

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... is redistributed to other resellers or users who do no qualify for these licenses. Organizations with Open, Select, or Enterprise Agreements can order fulfillment product components through the Microsoft World Wide Fulfillment (WWF) program. These volume license customers do not typically receive disks or documentation when they make copies of software, but they can get disks and documentation when needed. Disks ... and documentation come shrink-wrapped with decals identifying them as "World Wide Fulfillment- product, and "Not for Retail or OEM Distribution."" It is illegal to purchase ...

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... . Network and operating systems, such as NT server and Windows 95 are found in a vast number of companies. Internet applications such as Internet Explorer and Front Page allow browsing and WEB page creation. MS Office integrates spreadsheet, database, word processing and presentation manager applications into one user friendly package. Project Management software, Microsoft strikes again, MS Project covers the task very ... well. Project allows tracking of resources, labor costs, time-lines, and generates reports and Gantt Charts as well. Microsoft has covered all the primary function ar...

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