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Routers and the telecommunications lines connecting them are collectively referred to as ____.

A) backbone routers
B) Internet routers
C) an asynchronous backbone
D) the Internet backbone

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____ lets users create and manipulate e-mail folders and individual e-mail messages while the messages are still on the e-mail server.

A) POP
B) SMTP
C) IMAP
D) MIME

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A network which uses a specific set of rules and connects networks all over the world to each other, is called the ____________________.

IPv6 uses a ___ number for addresses.

Domain names are sets of words that are assigned to specific IP addresses.

What is the difference between a public network and a private network?

The combination of the protocol name and the domain name is called the ____.

Networks of computers and the Internet that connects them to each other form the basic technological structure that underlies virtually all electronic commerce.

____________________ is the amount of data that can travel through a communication medium per unit of time.

A(n)____________________ server is a computer that stores files written in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).

At a technological level, the Web is nothing more than software that runs on computers that are connected to the Internet.

A computer ____________________ is any technology that allows people to connect computers to each computer.

The POP protocol provides support for MIME.

The "virtual" part of VPN means that the connection seems to be a temporary, internal network connection, but the connection is actually permanent.

The ____________________ Protocol 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.

____ was the first Web browser that became widely available for personal computers.

SGML offers a system of marking up documents that is independent of any software application.

HTML is a meta language because users can create their own markup elements that extend the usefulness of XML.

The term cascading is used because designers can apply many style sheets to the same Web page, one on top of the other.

Internet ____________________ are computers that are directly connected to the Internet.