E-Commerce Chapter 2
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Networks of computer and the Internet that connects them to each other form the basic technological structure that underlies virtually all electronic commerce.
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The USENET was the earliest of the networks that eventually combines to become what we now call the Internet.
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E-mail was born in 1972 when a researcher wrote a program that could send a receive messages over the Defense Department network.
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The first e-mail mailing lists appeared on military and education research networks.
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A network of computers that are located in the same building is called a wide area network.
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The Internet provides a high degree of security in its basic structure.
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Extranets were used to save money and increase efficiency by replacing traditional communication tools such as fax, telephone, and overnight express document carriers.
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The word "virtual," used as a part of virtual private networks means that the network connection is permanent.
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An intranet extends beyond the organization that created it.
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Virtual private network software must be installed on the computers at both ends of a transmission.
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Public networks, private networks, and VPNs are independent of organizational boundaries.
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IP addresses appear as five decimal numbers separated by periods.
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Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is a common protocol used for sending and retrieving e-mail.
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Post Office Protocol (POP) allows the user to view only the header and the e-mail sender's name before deciding to download the entire message.
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The Post Office Protocol (POP) provides support for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions.
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At a technological level, the Web is nothing more than software that runs on computers that are connected to the Internet.
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The Semantic Web project envisions words on Web pages being tagged with their meanings.
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An HTML document is similar to a word-processing document in that it specifies how a particular text element will appear.
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The leftmost part of a domain is called a top-level domain (TLD).
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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has the responsibility of managing domain names and coordinating them with the IP address registrars.
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The most important parts of a Web page are the graphics, photographs, and small programs that run in the Web browser.
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SGML offers a system of marking up documents that is independent of any software application.
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The term "cascading" is used in cascading style sheets because designers can apply many style sheets to the same Web page, one on top of the other.
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The higher the bandwidth, the faster the transmission of data through a communication medium.
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A hierarchical hyperlink structure resembles conventional paper documents in that the reader begins on the first page and clicks the Next button to move to the next page in a serial fashion.
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The combination of telephone lines and the closed switches that connect them to each other is called a ____.
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Circuit
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Files and e-mail message sent over the Internet are broken down into small pieces called ______
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Packets
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The computer that decides how to best forward each packet from on network to another are called ______.
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Routers
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The programs on gateway computers that determine the best path on which to send each packet contain rules called _____.
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Routing Algorithms
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A _____ is a permanent telephone connection between two points.
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Leased Line
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_____ creates a private passageway through the public Internet that provides secure transmission from one computer to another.
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IP tunneling
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_____ is a connection that uses public networks and their protocols to send data using a technology called IP tunneling
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Virtual Private Network
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A _____ is a collection of rules for formatting, ordering, and error checking data sent across a network.
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Protocol
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_____ determine how a sending device indicates that it has finished sending a message and how the receiving device indicates that it has received the message.
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Protocols
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The 32-bit number used to identify computers connected to the Internet is known as the _____.
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IP Address
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_____ specifies the format of a mail message and describes how mail is to be administered on the e-mail server and transmitted on the Internet.
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Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
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In subnetting, a computer called a _____ device converts private IP addresses into normal IP addresses when it forwards packaets from those computers on the Internet.
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Network Address Translation (NAT)
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The combination of a protocol name and a domain name is called a(n) _____.
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Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
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IPv6 uses a _____ number for addresses.
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128 bit
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The purpose of a(n) _____ is to respond to requests for Web pages from Web clients.
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Web server
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_____ is a set of rules for handling binary files, such as word-processing documents, spreadsheets, photos, or sound clips that are attached to e-mail messages.
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MIME
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A newer e-mail protocol that performs the same basic functions as POP, but includes additional features, is known as _____.
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IMAP
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_____ lets users create and manipulate e-mail folders and individual e-mail messages while the message are still on the e-mail server.
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IMAP
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A(n) _____ has a hypertext reference (HREF) property, which specifies the remote or local document's address.
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Opening Tag
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A _____ structure resembles an inverted tree in which the root is at the top and the branches are below it.
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Linear Hyperlink
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HTML was developed by _____.
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Tim Berners-Lee
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_____ was the first Web browser that became widely available for personal computers.
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Mosaic
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The early versions of ____ let Web page designers create text-based electronic documents with headings, title bar titles, bullets, lines, and ordered lists.
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HTML
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In HTML, hyperlinks are created using the HTML _____ tag.
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Anchor
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A(n) ______ is any technology that allows people to connect to computers to each other.
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Computer Network
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A computer which uses a specific set of rules and connects networks all over the world to each other is called the _____.
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Internet
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The _____ is a subnet of the computers on the Internet that are connected to one another in a specific way that makes them and their contents easily accessible to each other.
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Internet
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A(n) _____ is an e-mail address that forwards any message it receives to any user who has subscribed to the list.
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Mailing List
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In 1979, a group of students and programmers at Duke University and the University of North Carolina started _____, which allows anyone who connects to the network to read and post articles on a variety of subjects.
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Usenet
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Usenet survives on the Internet today, with more than 1000 different topic areas that are called _____.
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Newsgroups
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Internet _____ are computers that are directly connected to the Internet.
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Hosts
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Companies known as _____ sell Internet access rights directly to larger customers and indirectly to smaller firms and individuals through other companies, called ISPs.
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Network Access Providers
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The subnet of the Internet includes computers and sensors connected to each other for communication and automatic transaction processing is called the _____.
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Internet of Things
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A(n) _____ is a set of standards that defines, in detail, the relationships among resource description framework (RDF) standards and specific extensible markup language (XML) tags within a particular knowledge domain.
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Ontology
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A group of network research scientists from nearly 200 universities and a number of major corporations joined together in 1996 to recapture the original enthusiasm of the ARPANET and created an advanced research network called ______.
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Internet2
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A(n) ______ is used when the Internet extends beyond the boundaries of an organization and includes networks of other organizations.
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Extranet
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The _____ controls the disassembly of a message or a file into packets before it is transmitted over the Internet, and it controls the reassembly of those packets into their original formats when they reach their destinations.
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TCP
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The _____ in TCP/IP specifies the addressing details for each packet, labeling each with the packet's origination and destination addresses.
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IP
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The set of rules for delivering Web page files other the Internet is in a protocol called the ______.
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Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
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A(n) ______ is a computer that stores files written in HTML.
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Hypertext Server
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A(n) _____ is a language that can be used to define other languages.
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Metalanguage
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HTML, XML, and XHTML have descended from the original _____ specification.
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SGML
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In HTML, the text elements that are related to each another are called ______ elements.
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Hypertext
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A(n) ______ hyperlink structure resembles conventional paper documents in that the reader begins on the first page and clicks a Next button to move to the next page in a serial fashion.
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Linear
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_____ uses paired start and stop tags in much the same way as a database software defines a record structure.
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XML
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A(n) _____ is a set of instructions that gives Web developers more control over the format of displayed pages.
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Stylesheet
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_____ tags convey the meaning (the semantics) of the information included within them.
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XML
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_____ is the amount of data that can travel through a communication medium per unit of time.
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Bandwidth
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_____ is a measure of the amount of information that can travel from a user to the Internet in a given amount of time.
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Upload Bandwidth