Internet

Question 1

VOIP

Answer 1

Technology that converts voice into data packets for transmission over an IP network
- allows for the use of Skype and facetime

Question 2

ISP

Answer 2

stand for: internet service provider

company that offers internet connections at monthly rates depending on the kind and amount of access needed

Question 3

Collsus

Answer 3

Computer designed to break secret German code in WW1

First electronic digital computer and turned information into binary code

Question 4

ARPA net

Answer 4

stands for: Advanced research projects agency

a network that linked scientific and academic research across the united states (now known as the internet)

Question 5

URL

Answer 5

a sites official address
1) protocal (http)
2) name of address or server (.com .edu. and ip address)
3) file navigation
stands for: uniform research locator
the address of the content placed on the web

Question 6

Gopher

Answer 6

Protocol designed for distributing, searching and retrieving documents over the internet (email)
first friendly interface to the internet

Question 7

ENIAC

Answer 7

stands for: electrical numerical integrated calculator
super computer built by the government
FIRST GENERAL ELECTRICAL PURPOSE COMPUTER

Question 8

Dataveillance

Answer 8

the massive electronic collection and distillation of consumer data

Question 9

Domain Name

Answer 9

On the world wide web, an identifying name, rather than a sites formal URL, that gives some indication of the nature of a sites content or owner

Question 10

Digital Native

Answer 10

people who have never known a world without the internet

Question 11

IP address

Answer 11

A unique string of numbers separated by periods that identifies each computer using the IP to communicate over a network
every host on the internet has a unique address

Question 12

Clickstream

Answer 12

The series of choices made by a user on the web

electronic tracking

Question 13

Knowledge gap

Answer 13

Growing differences in knowledge, civic activity, and literacy between better informed and less informed americans
Knowing what the customers wants

Question 14

Information Gap

Answer 14

Those suffering from the technology gap will have diminished access to the information it makes available

Question 15

Digital Divide

Answer 15

The lack of technological access among people of color, people who are poor or disabled and those in rural communities

Question 16

Technology Gap

Answer 16

Widening disparity between communication technology haves and have nots- people who use it and people who don’t
20% of people in the US do not use internet

Question 17

History of the Internet

Answer 17

William Gibson: Creator of cyber space, late 50’s or early 60’s
Product of the cold war
worried about the nuclear war with soviet union
Eisenhower was president
1971 email
1972 file transfer
1973 voice traffic (1990 it works)

Question 18

2 Dimensions of privacy

Answer 18

1. Consumer knowledge- individual rights to protect from intrusive media
2. Consumer Control: over information collection and use
   privacy of personal information

Question 19

Copy Rights on the Internet

Answer 19

designed to ensure that those who create content are financially compensated for their work
digital millennium copy right act
- get permission before they share you work