Exam 17: Information Services: The Internet and the World Wide Web

PC-based information services have not been as financially successful as videotex services.

You cannot gain access to the Internet through wireless systems.

The web's popularity is due, in part, to its ______ environment.

Briefly describe why the Internet has emerged as the world's premier information and communications tool.

What Internet term has ties to Monty Python?

Privacy issues have become an important Internet concern.

The same graphics you may use for a CD-ROM may not be suitable for Internet distribution. Why?

The terms "the Internet" and "the web" are defined exactly the same-they have the samemeaning.

Describe two security issues related to Internet use.

Internet5 is a consortium using high performance networks to help develop advanced network applications.

The terms B2C and B2B refer to what types or classes of Internet applications?68

Which popular Internet tool sounds like coffee?

introduced virtual reality concepts to the Internet.

Censorship is not a factor in regard to Internet use and applications.

The typical connection between a home user and a computer-based information system had been through a telephone line and a _______.

______ is the term that describes the real-time delivery of audio and/or video information via the Internet.

PC-based information services and the Internet are complementary in respect to their information pools and operation.