The invention provides a data-recording medium, a data-displaying apparatus, a data-providing apparatus and a data-providing system, each of which is useful in the course of exchanging information with other people through communications means such as telephone lines or dedicated lines, radio waves or optical communication. The medium, data-displaying apparatus, data-providing apparatus and data-providing system may be of the type that is user-friendly in, for example, applying an entry for a prize contest or a lottery or reservation by using a novel icon that makes it easy for the user to access data sources, retrieve data from the sources and file the data.An application menu is contained in the information related to the primary icon, the secondary icon or any lower-order icon displayed in the second management region (50a). When the application menu is selected, a computer performs a prescribed process, displaying a data sheet in the first management region (12a). When prescribed data is written in the data sheet, thereby making a reservation. Then, the computer has access to a data-providing server (4C) and acquires a result-obtaining icon (103a) selected on the basis of the conditions stored in the data-providing server (4C). The result-obtaining icon is displayed in the second management region (50a).