Day 4 Questions for Midterm

1.What are Internet cookies?
The popular rumors about web cookies describe them as programs that can scan your hard drive and gather information

2.What are packets?
is a formatted block of data carried by a computer network.

3.What route do packets take over the Internet?
The information gained about the paths that these packets take can then be used in four ... to watch over the Internet as it moves into its second decade

4.What is a 404 error on the web?
is an HTTP status code

5.What is 'e-commerce'?
is exactly analogous to a marketplace on the Internet.

6.What is the difference between ebay and craigslist?
on ebay you have to pay for the product you buy and you see it once its ordered
craidslist you buy it witht he person and you can see the product before you buy it.

7.What is SSL?
Secure Sockets Layer, a protocol developed by Netscape for transmitting private documents via the Internet. SSL uses a cryptographic system that uses two keys to encrypt data − a public key known to everyone and a private or secret key known only to the recipient of the message.

8.What are the two major ways for home users to connect to the Internet via a high speed
connection?

9.What is a T-1 line?
T-1 lines are a popular leased line option for businesses connecting to the Internet and ... Committee T1 develops technical standards and reports regarding