Internet Flashcards

Mass Communication 2000 with Freeman at Louisiana State University

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Internet

global network of interconnected computers that communicate freely

Joseph C. R. Licklider

Psychologist _______________________foresaw “home computer consoles” and television sets connected in a nationwide network

Charles Babbage

________________________produced designs for “computer” that could conduct algebraic computations using stored memory and punch cards

Colossus;Colossus,

_____________ developed by Britain to break Germany’s secret codes during World War II, was first electronic ___________________

IBM

Commercial computer explosion was ignited by _____

Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)

_________________________________commissioned Paul Baran of the Rand Corporation to produce plan to enable the U.S. military to maintain command over its missiles and planes if a nuclear attack disabled conventional means of communication

Protocols

________________common communication rules and languages that enable any type of computer with any operating system to communicate with another computer

Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf

______________________Envisioned a box that would serve as a translator for all the various incompatible networks. Did something to allow computers to talk to each other.

stands for transmission control protocol which controls how data are sent out on the Internet

TCP

stands for Internet protocol, which provides the address for each computer or the Internet

Inter networking of networks

Term Internet was coined in 1973 as an abbreviation for _______________________

TCP/IP

Lets packets from one network be repackaged for transmission and then converted into a form that the receiving computer can understand

Bill Gates and Paul Allen

_____________________founded Microsoft and licensed their operating system—the software that tells the computer how to work—to MITS

Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak

________________________perfected Apple II, a low-cost, easy-to-use microcomputer designed specifically for personal use and known for multimedia

LANs (Local Area Networks)

____________________connect two or more computers, usually within the same building

Internet providers (sometimes called ISPs, or Internet Service Providers)

_____________________companies that offer Internet connections at monthly rates depending on the kind and amount of access needed

Tim Berners-Lee; To work as a medium of mass communication

Invention of the World Wide Web by British physicist ____________________ created the software that allows the internet ____________________________

Hypertext transfer protocols (HTTP)

World Wide Web (WWW) uses _____________________________ to transport files from one place to another

Browsers

____________software programs used to download and view Web files

users;audience members

The Internet has ________, not audience members

Women; old people

_____________mostly use internet; ____________ use it the least.

Global Village

____________________Marshall McLuhan’s idea that new communication technologies will permit people to become increasingly involved in one another’s lives= world is smaller b/c of internet.

Flash mobs or smart mobs

___________________________large geographically dispersed groups connected by thin threads of communications technology

Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996

_______________________ forbade online transmission of any image that “appears to be of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct”

Children’s Internet Protection Act in 2000

__________________requires schools and libraries to install filtering software= Limit access to kids was constitutional

fair use

________instances in which copyrighted material may be used without permission or payment

Technology Gap

_________________widening disparity between the communication technology haves and have-not

Digital divide

__________________lack of technological access among people of color, the poor, the disabled, and those in rural communities

Information Gap

__________________________those without the requisite technology have diminished access to the information that technology makes available

RAM

In early electronic computers, the component that held data currently being worked with was called the

mathematical equations

Before the adoption of ARPANET, the military used computers for

Usenet

The first newsgroups were carried on

A site where people begin web surfing

On the web, a portal is

http

The most common protocol, apart from that used for e-mail is

metacrawlers

Which of the following refers to search engines that combine results from more than one search engine at a time?

abbreviation

In the world of netiquette, emoticons are used as a form of

listserver

Which of the following sends messages posted by members of a group, to all the other group members' e-mail addresses?

they are designed to quickly give rewards early in the game

According to the text, one reason MMORPGs are so popular is that

network engineers

Which are the people who design and build the systems that make up the Internet?

carry many more items than a typical store

One reason traditional retailers like Wal-Mart get into online commerce, is that it enables them to

an interest in financial gain

a desire to impress peers

a desire to protest the commercialization of the net

According to the text, hacker attacks are motivated by

Worms

Which of the following are programs that take over e-mail systems and send themselves to other computers from the infected computer's address book?

it was too broad

The Communications Decency Act of 1996 was overturned after a year because

attribution

authority

objectivity

Which of the following do library experts suggest as a good criterion to judge web pages used for research?

True

The first computer was invented around 3000 B.C. in Babylonia.

false

A protocol is a code that prevents one computer system from obtaining private information in another system.

False

Mosaic, the first web browser, was invented by British researcher Tim Berners

True

Cybersquatting, the practice of registering trademarked names in order to resell them to companies that owned the trademarks, became illegal in 1999.

False

Personal attacks in the online world are known as "shouting."

False

The practice of "lurking" means to find and read the e-mails of a particular unknowing individual.

False

When bloggers with cell phones invite people to see an event in progress - the resulting crowd is called a blog mob.

False

The majority of hacker attacks appear to be motivated by financial gain.

False

Distance learning is a service that specifically teaches people about other cultures around the world.

True

Consumers often place spyware on their computers when they download free

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