W2: Introduction to the Digital Age

Question 1

It is a period in human history that started when computers were introduced in the 1970s

Answer 1

Digital Age

Question 2

Rapid shift from mechanical industrialization to technological innovation

Answer 2

Digital Age

Question 3

The Digital Age is also termed as ______ ,______, or_______

Answer 3

the Information Age, Computer Age, or New Media Age

Question 4

What is ICT

Answer 4

Information and Communication Technology

Question 5

pertains to the unification and integration of telecommunication lines (wireless or not), computers, software and systems that enable access, storage, transmittal, and manipulation of information

Answer 5

ICT

Question 6

It concentrates on advancing the way we communicate in the information or digital age

Answer 6

ICT

Question 7

Imaginative Art or some form of communication were discovered by archeologist in …

Answer 7

Cave painting and Carve stones

Question 8

cave paintings and carved stones were done by _________ that dates backs to around what year

Answer 8

Neanderthals or early homo sapiens; 130,000 to 100,000 BC

Question 9

use of homing pigeons which date back to no less than….

Answer 9

2,900 BC

Question 10

____ pigeons were additionally utilized for correspondence in China, India, persia, and numerous parts of Asia

Answer 10

Homing

Question 11

The Egyptian army utilized ____ pigeons for military correspondence

Answer 11

bearer

Question 12

Around _____ BC, King ________ sent a homing pigeon out with every one of his detachments.

Answer 12

2350 BC. King Sargon of Akkadia

Question 13

By_____, _______ pigeons were being utilized to convey the news of Olympic triumphs to Athens

Answer 13

776, transporter

Question 14

the story of ____ is that which inspired the sporting spectacle of Marathon running

Answer 14

Pheidippides

Question 15

Pheidippides an Athenian Herald or courier was said to have run from _____ to ____

Answer 15

Marathon to Athens

Question 16

Why did Pheidippides ran from Marathon to Athens

Answer 16

to report that the Greeks won against the Persians in the Battle of Marathon

Question 17

The first daily newspaper ever distributed was

Answer 17

Einkommende Zeitungen

Question 18

What year was the first daily newspaper and what place

Answer 18

July 1, 1650 in Leipzig, Germany

Question 19

What does Einkommende Zeitungen mean

Answer 19

approaching daily papers

Question 20

The Telegraph was created in the (year) by (name)

Answer 20

1840s, Samuel Morse

Question 21

Samuel Morse year of birth and death

Answer 21

1791-1872

Question 22

It worked by transmitting electrical flags over a wire laid between stations

Answer 22

Telegraph

Question 23

What code did Samuel Morse built

Answer 23

Morse code

Question 24

Alexander Grahan Bell year of birth and death

Answer 24

1847-1922

Question 25

worked at a school for the hard of hearing while at the same time endeavoring to imagine a machine that would transmit sound by power

Answer 25

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 26

What date was Bell awarded the principal official patent for his phone

Answer 26

March 7, 1876

Question 27

who pioneered the first long-distance radio transmission and what year

Answer 27

Guglielmo Marconi in 1901

Question 28

the first long-distance- radio transmission and transmitted to the first transatlantic radio signal from ____ to _____

Answer 28

Cornwall to Newfoundland

Question 29

In (date), (company) held the first public demonstration of long-distance TV image transmission

Answer 29

April 7, 1927, AT&T (The Bell Company)

Question 30

Reporters watched as a TV image of Secretary of _____ (name) was sent from _____ to _____ by phone lines

Answer 30

Commerce, Herbert Hoover, Washington D.C., New York

Question 31

Inter-networking began when packet switching networks which included the ______ of the ________ joined multiple separate networks into a networks or networks

Answer 31

APARNET project, US Protection Office

Question 32

World Wide Web was developed from ____ to ____ at the _______ and was made freely available to the world in ____

Answer 32

1989-1994, European Council for Nuclear Research, 1994

Question 33

Instant messaging began in the ______

Answer 33

70s and 80s

Question 34

AOL or American Online gained popularity in

Answer 34

May 1997

Question 35

In ____ the word blog sprung up and after 5 years the term was announced expression of the year by_____

Answer 35

1999, Merriam-Webster

Question 36

the world's most mainstream interpersonal interaction site

Answer 36

Facebook

Question 37

Facebook was launched when and by who

Answer 37

February 2004, Mark Zuckerberg

Question 38

Twitter was created by who and when

Answer 38

Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Business Stone, Evan William in 2006