Computer software, namely, computer programs for accessing transmitting, searching, retrieving, printing, downloading, monitoring, and reporting upon information from remote databases containing audio, video, graphic, and text-based information; for operating and/or controlling or being controlled by remote computers or computer databases; for creating, editing, transmitting, storing, and receiving video, graphic, audio, and text information; for communicating over the global computer network using digital, audio, video and graphical information; for monitoring and administering selectable site access restrictions, time-out, and security codes, and reporting upon and accounting for the foregoing activities; and for integration and operation of electronic circuits, interface cards, computers, video display terminals, printers, scanners, printed circuit and component boards, namely, boards for facsimile transmission and reception and document reproduction, optical character recognition, voice recognition, and text to speech applications; and for integration and operation of modems and mechanized data acquisition means, namely, magnetic surface readers/writers, magnetic disk and tape readers/writers, and bar code readers and modems

Providing multiple user access to the global computer network via public computer terminals connected to printing, faxing, scanning, optical character recognition, text-to-speech, and telecommunications apparatus