Ответ:

1) What is Internet used for?

The Internet is used to search for and retrieve information on all sorts of topics in a wide variety of areas including the arts, business, government, humanities, news, politics and recreation.

2) Why so many activities such as e-mail and business transactions are possible through the Internet?

They are possible because tens of thousands of networks are connected to the Internet and exchange information in the same basic ways.

3) What is World Wide Web?

The World Wide Web (WWW) is a part of the Internet, information that is connected or linked together like a web.

4) What is a Web browser?

It is interface or tool used to access the Web.

5) What does user need to have an access to the WWW?

Users need a computer terminal (hardware) connected to a network that is a part of the Internet, and a program (software) to browse or retrieve information.

6) What are hyperlinks?

They are a portion of text, icon or region of a map representing a document, an image, a video clip or an audio file somewhere on the Internet.

7) What resources are available on the WWW?

Everything that can be put into digital format and stored in a computer is available on the WWW.

8) What are the basic recreational applications of WWW?

TV and radio stations broadcasting live, visiting museums, gardens, cities throughout the world, learning foreign languages and meeting new friends, playing computer games.