Every day, more consumers are using the Internet for financial activities like investing, banking and shopping. If you surf the Internet, then you"re probably familiar with the terms "digital stores" and "online malls." ... Shopping online opens up a whole world of goods and services. ... Shopping online offers lots of benefits that are hard to find when shopping in a store or by mail. ... Bargains can also be numerous online. ...

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Other services the Internet has to offer are things such as Online Banking. ... As well as Online Banking, the Internet offers things such as home shopping. ... Practically anything you could ever need to look up is provided online and can easily be found with the use of a search engine. ... The Internet can provide entertainment to the user with interesting sites or online games. There are endless things to do online. ...

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Online shopping, banking, auctions, and research, have become second nature to most Americans. ... This online magazine has a following of 1.7 million readers a month. ... Between December of 1999 and February of 2000, the McCain camp raised over 4 million dollars online. In contrast, the Bush camp raised $350,000; along with the Gore camp, which barely went over 1 million dollars in online contributions. As shown in Table 1; Table 1 Candidate Online raised through 12/31/99 Online Contributions through 02/15/00 Total contributions through 02/15/00 Online Contributions as % of Total Cont...

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Information in this sub-section of Infoseek's main index takes 500 sources including trade newsletters, newspapers, and periodicals with categories such as space, real estate, energy, health care, insurance, banking, and pharmaceuticals. ...

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The Internet: A Link to the World Imagine talking about the latest elections with someone three thousand miles away without receiving a large phone bill; or sending a letter to a friend or relative and having it arrive one second later. How would it feel to know that any source of information is at your fingertips at the press of a button? All of these are possible and more with a system of networks all connected and sending information at light speed from place to place known as the Internet. The Internet was a trendy word in the Nineties, yet it has a background that spans all the way ...

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For the first decade or so the ARPAnet was primarily used for e-mail, database access, file transfers and online discussion forums. ... Many banks merely offer e-banking as a supplemental service, but some banks exist entirely online (for example Egg) and have no branches at all. ... The advent of online gaming has also added to the geek factor of the Internet. ...

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