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Section 4 Flashcards

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Programmer at MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Lab

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Richard Stallman

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Funded by the company Symbolics

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MIT’s AI Lab’s Lisp Machine

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Did not want to share its AI software

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MIT’s AI Lab

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Proponent of free software. Wanted source code to be publicly available and modifiable.

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Richard Stallman

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Created GNU

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Richard Stallman

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New, open-source OS created by Richard Stallman

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GNU

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Richard Stallman’s GNU was missing its

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kernel (HURD)

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GNU’s kernel

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HURD

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Finish college student who developed a Unix-like OS

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Linus Torvalds

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Sought to improve the Minix OS

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Linus Torvalds

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Vannevar Bush’s system that predated Web’s Hypertext

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Memex

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Hypothetical machine by Vannevar Bush for retrieving documents from microfilm

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Memex

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Ted Nelson’s system that predated Hypertext

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Xanadu

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14
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System for indexing, connecting, and accessing documents; never completed
By Ted Nelson

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Xanadu

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Made by Apple.
Virtual cards that displayed linked content on a user’s system; no connection to other servers

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Hypercard

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Where the World Wide Web was invented

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CERB physics lab in Switzerland

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17
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Invetor of the World Wide Web

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Tim Berners-lee

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18
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Hypertext+internet=

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World Wide Web

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Key parts of the World Wide Web that Tim Berners Lee pioneered

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HTML, HTTP, Tags, Web server, URL

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Inventors of Mosaic

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Marc Andreseen, Eric Bina

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Free access web browser made by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina

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Mosaic

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22
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Mosaic worked on ____ and could access hyperlinks with

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Windows, Mac, and Unix. Mouse clicks.

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Founders of Netscape Communications Corporation

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Jim Clark, Marc Andreesen

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Amount of times Netscape was downloaded

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15 million times

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25
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Search engine by Jerry Yang and David Filo

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Yahoo

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Yahoo creators

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David Filo, Jerry Yang

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Search engine created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin

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Google

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Google creators

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Larry Page, Sergey Brin

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Manually created lists of verified sites. Search engine

30
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Relied on inbound links to determine relevancy and targeted advertisements. Search engine.

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Original name of Java

32
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Inventor of Java

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James Gosling

33
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Could run on all computers, simplified the difficult features of C.
Popular addition to HTML (like animations, games, and videos).

34
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Release year of the Macintosh and how many units sold.

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1998, 800,000 unites

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Fun turquoise plastic shell, friendly round chassis, no floppy disk drive

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Apple iMac

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Early potable computers during the 1980s

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Osborne 1, GRiD Compass 1101, IBM PC-compatible portable computer

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5-inch monochrome screen, 23 pounds, CP/M OS.
Early portable computer

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First laptop computer, cost $8,000

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GRiD Compass 1101

39
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Developed by Compaq to be PC compatible. Portable computer.

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IBM PC-compatible portable computer

40
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First personal digital assistant (PDA)

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Psios Organizer II

41
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Stylus; bulky and expensive. PDA

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Apple Newton

42
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Grafitti gesture-based alphabet; included many programming tools and apps. PDA

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Palm Pilot

43
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Keyboard and wireless email service

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Search in Motion, BlackBerry

44
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Portable music players adapted from

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cassettes and radio technology

45
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The first commercially available cell phone was released in

46
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Smartphones combined the features of

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PDAs, GPS unites, MP3 players, and cell phones

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First smartphone

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Handspring Treo

48
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Sold cellular telephones

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BlackBerry

49
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Manufactured smartphones using Symbian

50
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Released a Windows Mobile OS for smartphones

51
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The iPhone sold

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90 million copies in 3 years

52
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Interactive websites focused on publishing use-generated content

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Invented by Ward Cunningham in 1995

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Objective C, Swift based cellular phones

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Wikiwiki (Hawaiian word)

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Java used for phones

56
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Sued Google for royalty payments in 2009

57
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Every few years, PCs increase in power and decrease in price. Transistor double on a processor.

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Moore’s Law

58
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Leasing computers to other businesses for a fee

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Cloud computing

59
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SaaS

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Software as a service

60
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Salesforce.com, Adobe Suite, Hotmail/Outlook, Office Suite, Gmail, G Suite

61
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Online ledger that can be used to record financial transactions, citizenship, membership, ownership, and more

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Blockchain

62
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Series of bytes based on the content of previous entires. Apart of blockchain

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Invented by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008

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NFT

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non-fungible token

65
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The study of AI began during the

66
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Using algorithms to analyze data and find patterns

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machine learning

67
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“Bit” units are represented by 0 or 1. Slower

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Electronic computers

68
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“Bit” units are represented by positions of an electron on an atom. Incredibly fast

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Quantum computers

Social Science 23-24 (12 decks)

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