Chapter 10- Internet

Question 1

U.S. Department of Defense sets up a computer network called the Advanced Research Project Agency Network (ARPANET), connecting university, military, and defense contractor computers. This is considered the birth of the Internet….

Answer 1

1969

Question 2

Compuserve, the first successful general interest online service

Answer 2

1979

Question 3

The first mobile phone becomes available to consumers

Answer 3

1983

Question 4

America Online begins operation, with simple point-and-click software that quickly makes it the most popular online service

Answer 4

1989

Question 5

The World Wide Web, invented by Tim Berners-Lee, becomes public, allowing users easy access to the internet

Answer 5

1993

Question 6

The internet is turned over to the public sector, partly because there are so many civilians on it that it can no longer be used for national security purposes

Answer 6

1995

Question 7

Google is founded in a garage in California

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1998

Question 8

MySpace purchased by News Corp

Answer 8

2006

Question 9

YouTube purchased by google

Answer 9

2006

Question 10

Protestors in Iran use Twitter to maintain contact with outside world

Answer 10

2009

Question 11

Sending digital messages in chunks through any open pathway, to be reassembled at their destination.

Answer 11

Packet Switching

Question 12

Software codes that enable one computer to communicate with another

Answer 12

Protocols

Question 13

A simplified means of navigating the internet based on hypertext links and graphical user interfaces

Answer 13

World Wide Web

Question 14

Highlighted words and images within a web page that allow the user to move to another site by pointing and clicking a mouse button

Answer 14

Hypertext links (hyperlinks)

Question 15

A software program that enables a user to move around the internet

Answer 15

Browser

Question 16

A set of browser features such as icons & hot spots that allow users to navigate websites easily

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Graphical user interface (GUI)

Question 17

An Internet address that connects the user to a website on a particular computer

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Uniform resource locator (URL)

Question 18

The protocol that enables computers to recognize links on the World Wide Web

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Hypertext transfer protocol (http)

Question 19

The basic computer language used to write hypertext transfer protocol (http)

Answer 19

Hypertext markup language (HTML)

Question 20

An advanced programming language used for animated images & advanced sound applications

Answer 20

Java

Question 21

Sending live video & broadcasting over online applications

Answer 21

Streaming

Question 22

Downloading & saving a video file at the same time it is being viewed

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Buffering

Question 23

Web 2.0

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The idea of a second generation internet that is highly participatory, allowing users to improve it as they use it

Question 24

Mashup

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Online participation in which users combine material & add to the application as they use it

Question 25

Using online software applications rather than tolls & information housed on a personal computer

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Cloud Computing

Question 26

Rudio-wave towers are set up on a grid so that each area of the grid is supplied with radio service

Answer 26

Cell Technology

Question 27

Taking classes at locations other than a school facility, especially online

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Distance learning

Question 28

Games such as EverQuest that allow many players to join in over the Internet...

Answer 28

Massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs)

Question 29

Programs that track internet users activities & report them back to advertisers...

Answer 29

Spyware

Question 30

Mobile phone text messaging

Answer 30

SMS(short message service)

Question 31

Mobile phone text messaging that includes image, sound, or video...

Answer 31

MMS(multimedia message service)

Question 32

The selling of foods & services online

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E-commerce

Question 33

One who uses programming skills to gain illegal access to computer networks or files

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Hacker

Question 34

Sending fake e-mails to get victims to reveal sensitive information...

Answer 34

Phishing

Question 35

Unsolicited e-mail messages

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Spam

Question 36

A file placed on a computer’s hard drive that enables that computer to be tracked...

Answer 36

Cookie

Question 37

Tim Bernard-Lee invented the World Wide Web

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1989

Question 38

Sites from which users begin their web searching, can influence the direction of the user’s search for information, entertainment, & commerce

Answer 38

Portals

Question 39

Who is google founded by? (2 ppl)

Answer 39

Larry Page & Sergey Brin

Question 40

Who started the ARPA? (Advanced research Projects Agency

Answer 40

President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 41

What were computers first used for?

Answer 41

Computers were used for crunching numbers in long mathematical equations

Question 42

Who was the inventor of the telephone and what year?

Answer 42

Alexander Graham Bell and 1876

Question 43

Who do many people believe is the true inventor of the telephone?

Answer 43

Antonio Mexico

Question 44

What are three basic revenue sources for both mobile & online media...

Answer 44

1) paid content 2) advertising 3) e-commerce product sales

Question 45

Who are the “Big Four” wireless providers...

Answer 45

Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, or T-Mobile

Question 46

Games such as EverQuest that allow many players to join over the Internet

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Massively Multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs)

Question 47

What happened in January 2004?

Answer 47

The first federal law to address the spam problem took effect. This act required unsolicited commercial e-mail messages to be labeled (though not by a standard method) & to include opt-out instructions & the senders physical address. It authorized the FCC to establish a “do-not-e-mail” list similar to the “do not call” list that allows people to opt out of telemarketing calls.

Question 48

This Act made it illegal to make “indecent communication” available to anyone under 18.

Answer 48

The Communications Decency Act of 1996

Question 49

What are the 4 criteria library experts suggest to evaluate web pages used for research?

Answer 49

Attribution Authority Objectivity Currency