Information Age (1900s - 2000s)

Question 1

The Internet paved the way for faster communication and the creation of the social network. People advanced the use of microelectronics with the invention of personal computers, mobile devices, and wearable technology. Moreover, voice, image, sound and data are digitalized. We are now living in the __________.

Answer 1

Information Age (1900s - 2000s)

Question 2

NCSA _____, or simply ______, is the web browser that popularized the World Wide Web and the Internet. It was also a client for earlier internet protocols such as File Transfer Protocol, Network News Transfer Protocol, and Gopher. The browser was named for its support of multiple internet protocols.

Answer 2

Mosaic (1993)

Question 3

was a series of graphical web browsers (or, as of 2019, a “compatibility solution”) developed by Microsoft and included in the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995.

Answer 3

Internet Explorer (1995)

Question 4

A ______ (a truncation of “weblog”) is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts). Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order, so that the most recent post appears first, at the top of the web page. Until 2009, ______ were usually the work of a single individual, occasionally of a small group, and often covered a single subject or topic.

Answer 4

Blogs

Question 5

___________is a Russian social networking service where users can keep a blog, journal or diary.
American programmer Brad Fitzpatrick started __________ on April 15, 1999, as a way of keeping his high school friends updated on his activities. In January 2005, American blogging software company Six Apart purchased Danga Interactive, the company that operated ___________, from
Fitzpatrick.

Answer 5

LiveJournal (1999)

Question 6

_______________ is a free and open-source content management system (CMS). It is most associated with blogging but supports other types of web content including more traditional mailing lists and forums, media galleries, and online stores. _________ was released on May 27, 2003, by its founders, Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little.

Answer 6

Wordpress (2003)

Question 7

Give examples of Blogs

Answer 7

Blogspot, LiveJournal, Wordpress

Question 8

______________ was a social gaming site based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was originally a social networking service website. Before ___________was redesigned, the service allowed users to contact other members, maintain those contacts, and share online content and media with those contacts. The website was also used for dating and discovering new events, bands and hobbies. Users could share videos, photos, messages and comments with other members via profiles and networks. It is considered one of the original social networks.

Answer 8

Friendster (2002)

Question 9

______________ was a social networking service with an emphasis on allowing users to share media - such as photos, videos and blog entries - with their “real-world” network.

Answer 9

Multiply (2003)

Question 10

On February 4, 2004, Mark Zuckerberg launched “The ______”. The social networking service gradually expanded to the most universities in Canada and USA. On August, 2005, the company dropped ‘The’ from its name, and on September 26, 2006, _______ was opened to everyone at least 13 years old with a valid email address.

Answer 10

Facebook (2004)

Question 11

Give out examples of social networks:

Answer 11

Friendster, Multiply, Facebook

Question 12

________ is an American online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as “tweets”. Tweets were originally restricted to 140 characters, but on November 7, 2017, this limit was doubled to 280 for all languages except Chinese,
Japanese, and Korean.

Answer 12

Twitter (2006)

Question 13

______ is a microblogging and social networking website founded by David Karp in 2007 and owned by Verizon Media, The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short- form blog. Users can follow other users’ blogs. Bloggers can also make their blogs private. For bloggers many of the website’s features are accessed from a “dashboard” interface.

Answer 13

Tumblr (2007)

Question 14

Give out examples of Microblogs:

Answer 14

Twitter, Tumblr

Question 15

Give out examples of Portable computers:

Answer 15

laptops (1980), netbooks (2008), tablets (1993)

Question 16

Give out examples of Search Engines:

Answer 16

Google (1996), Yahoo (1995)

Question 17

Give out examples of Video Chat:

Answer 17

Skype (2003), Google Hangouts (2013)