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Section IV: The Internet, Social Media, and Mobile Computing Flashcards

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1
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What is free software?

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software with source code that could be inspected, modified, and used by anyone

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What did Richard Stallman call his Unix-compatible OS?

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GNU

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What software license did GNU have?

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a GPL

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By the late 1980s, GNU was mostly complete except for which component?

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the kernel

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Where was the Linux kernel invented?

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Finland

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Who invented the Linux?

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Linus Torvalds

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Which OS did Torvalds use as a starting point for his Unix-like OS?

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the Minix

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Who invented Minix?

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Andrew Tanenbaum

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Torvalds began rewriting the Linux kernel to take advantage of what?

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the features of the Intel 80386 processor

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Over time, what happened to the Minix code used for the Linux kernel?

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it was entirely rewritten

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Torvalds released the Linux under which license?

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the GPL

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Which kernel did the GNU use?

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the Linux

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When did the U.S. break up the AT&T government monopoly?

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1984

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What was the result of the AT&T monopoly being broken up?

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it could now market Unix more aggressively, charging steeper licensing fees

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To which company did AT&T sell the Unix rights in 1993?

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Novell

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16
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When was hypertext coined?

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the 1960s

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17
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Who coined the term hypertext?

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Ted Nelson

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18
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Hypertext was inspired by which hypothetical machine?

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the memex

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Who made the memex?

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Vannevar Bush

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In the 70s, Nelson began working on a hypertext system called _______.

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Xanadu

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What company was also working on a hypertext system during the 70s?

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Apple, it was called HyperCard

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What best-selling video game was based on HyperCard?

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Myst

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23
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The World Wide Web is a combination of which 2 technologies?

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hypertext and the Internet

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24
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Apple bundled HyperCard with which computer?

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the Macintosh

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25
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Where was the World Wide Web made?

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CERN

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26
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What is CERN?

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a physics laboratory located in Switzerland

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27
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Who created the World Wide Web?

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Tim Berners Lee

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28
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What does HTML stand for?

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Hypertext Markup Language

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29
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What is HTML used for?

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embedding links into web pages

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30
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What special syntax does HTML code use?

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Tags

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31
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In HTML, what is used to mark the beginning and end of a paragraph?

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<p>
</p>

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32
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In HTML, what is used to mark the end of a paragraph?

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</p>

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33
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What did Lee make to find the location of a document on the World Wide Web?

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the URL

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34
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What is HTTP?

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a protocol that allows computers to transfer web pages over the Internet

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35
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What does HTTP stand for?

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Hypertext Transfer Protocol

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36
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When was the Web created?

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1990

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37
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Why was the Web not useful when it was first made?

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because there was only one web server

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38
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Where was Gopher made?

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the University of Minnesota

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39
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Why did users come to the World Wide Web?

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because of Internet services

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40
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What was the first popular web browser?

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Mosaic

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41
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Who made Mosaic?

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Marc Andreesen and Eric Bina

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Why was Mosaic superior to previous web browsers?

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because it could display text and images, allowed mouse clicks to make it easier to surf the web, and was compatible with Windows, Macintosh, and Unix

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43
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Most graphical web browsers before Mosaic only supported which OS?

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Unix

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44
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Mosaic was a killer app in which decade?

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the 1990s

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45
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Who approached Andreesen and Bina and offered to market and form a business for Mosaic?

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Jim Clark

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46
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What was Jim Clark famous for?

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founding Silicon Graphics in 1983

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47
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When Clark offered to market and form a business for Mosaic, what happened?

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the University of Illinois intervened and said no because they claimed it was theirs

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48
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Anderseen left the University of Illinois and founded which corporation?

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Netscape Communications Corporation

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49
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What new web browser replaced Mosaic?

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Netscape Navigator

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50
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When was Netscape Navigator released?

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1994

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51
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By the end of 1994, how many web servers were online?

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10,000

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52
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At the end of 1995, how many downloads had Netscape Navigator gotten?

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15 million

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53
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What was Netscape’s business model?

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give away the browser to regular users for free but charge companies a license fee for the browser and the server software

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Which Windows computer was the first model to not need a copy of MS-DOS?

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Windows 95

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What was Microsoft’s first web browser called?

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Internet Explorer

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56
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Microsoft licensed the source code for Internet Explorer from which other web browser and company?

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Mosaic, Spyglass

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Why wasn’t Internet Explorer as polished as Netscape?

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because it was based on old Mosaic code

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What were the browser wars?

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Internet Explorer and Netscape constantly releasing new versions to outdo each other

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What part of the browser wars were the designers of the Internet not proud of?

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its incompatibility, they would display messages that were unique for their web browser

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60
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When did Internet Explorer finally catch up to Netscape?

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1998

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61
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What Microsoft computer included Internet Explorer pre-installed for free?

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Windows 98

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62
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How did the fact that Internet Explorer was integrated into Windows 98’s OS benefit Microsoft?

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it made it so Microsoft didn’t have to pay royalties to Spyglass, it was free so more people came to IE, and it reduced competition from Netscape

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63
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What was the resulting product of Netscape releasing its source code?

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it created Mozilla

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64
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What was Mozilla?

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a web browser, an email client, a web page authoring tool, address book, and calender

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Why did Mozilla not gain any market share?

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because it was slow, bloated, and laggy

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66
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In 2004, Mozilla released which other web browser?

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Firefox

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67
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How was Firefox better than Mozilla?

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it was fast and didn’t have all the extra features that slowed Mozilla down

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What were the 2 most successful early search engines?

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Yahoo and Google

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69
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When was Yahoo founded?

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1993

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70
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Who founded Yahoo?

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Jerry Yand and David Filo

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What was Yahoo’s method for a search engine?

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created a manually curated list of websites they chose

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Why was Yahoo’s search engine strategy problematic?

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there were soon tons of websites and they couldn’t manually input them all

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73
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When was Google invented?

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1997

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74
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Who invented Google?

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Larry Page and Sergey Brin

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75
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What are inbound links?

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a link on a website that links to other web pages

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75
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What was Google’s strategy for creating an optimal search engine?

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they created an algorithm that favored websites with more inbound links

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76
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When did Google start placing textual advertisements?

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2000

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77
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What was the dot-com bubble?

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a huge growth in people trying to strike it rich by creating their own tech companies, funded by wealthy investors

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What were dot-coms?

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tech companies started in the late 90s that grew very fast, but fell just as fast

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What caused many dot-coms to fail?

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when the global economy slowed and investors became more cautious about their money, occurred after the 2000 election and 9/11

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80
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Who created Java?

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James Gosling

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81
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When was Java created?

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1992

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82
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What was Java initially called?

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Oak

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83
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What would Java’s compiler translate the programmer’s code into?

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an intermediary assembly-like language called bytecode

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What would bytecode be interpreted by?

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another program called the Java Virtual machine

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85
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What was the goal of Java’s designers in making it?

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binary compatibility across all computers

86
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The first web pages consisted mostly of what?

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static or non-moving text and images

87
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What was Java used for?

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creating applets

88
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What is Java used for today?

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creating mobile apps for Android devices

89
Q

When was Jobs fired from Apple?

A

1985

90
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When Jobs was fired from Apple, what was the name of the company he founded shortly after?

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NeXT

91
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What did the NeXT OS combine?

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BSD Unix and GUI

92
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About how many NeXT machines were sold in total?

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50,000

93
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What slowed NeXT’s adoption?

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its high price tag

94
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By 1996, what was Apple’s share of the computer market?

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4%

95
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What caused Apple’s market share to go down?

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not developing and renewing MacOS

96
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How did Jobs initially rejoin Apple?

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as a member of the board of directors

97
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When did Jobs become CEO again?

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1997

98
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What was Apple’s initial goal of buying NeXT?

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getting their Unix-based software for MacOS

99
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When was the iMac released?

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1998

100
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What does iMac stand for?

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internet Macintosh

101
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How was the iMac different from most computers?

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it was encased in a turquoise shell, the chassis was round, and it didn’t have a floppy disk drive

102
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How many iMacs were sold?

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800,000

103
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Why did the U.S. DOJ sue Microsoft?

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because they integrated Internet Explorer into the Windows OS

104
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What was the first successful portable computer?

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the Osborne 1

105
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What was the first laptop?

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the GRiD Compass 1101

106
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What slowed the adoption of the GRiD Compass 1101?

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its high price tag and its incompatibility with Unix, CP/M, or MS/DOS

107
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How much did the GRiD Compass cost?

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$8,000

108
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Handheld computers with flat video screens appeared in which science fiction film?

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2001: A Space Odyssey

109
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What was the first PDA?

A

the Psion Organizer II

110
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When was the Psion Organizer II released?

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1986

111
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Which company made the Newton?

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Apple

112
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When did Apple release the Newton?

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1993

113
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What was the name of the Palm Pilot’s keyboard?

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graffiti

114
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Which company released the BlackBerry?

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Research in Motion

115
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When was the BlackBerry released?

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1999

116
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Which country was Research In Motion based in?

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Canada

117
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What does GPS stand for?

A

Global Positioning Service

118
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Which decade did GPSs start appearing on cars?

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the 1990s

119
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What was the first GPS device made?

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TomTom Go in 2004

120
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What was TomTom’s main competitor?

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Garmin

121
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What was the Sony Walkman?

A

a small cassette tape player with headphones

122
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Who made the iPod?

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Apple

123
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When was the iPod released?

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2001

124
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Cellphones have a history that stretches back to which century?

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the early 20th century

125
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When did the first commercially available cell phone appear?

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1983

126
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Why did early cell phones get the name “brick”?

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because of their large and heavy size

127
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What was the Handspring Treo considered?

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an all-in-one PDA because it combined a cell phone with a PDA

128
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What was the nickname that emerged for devices that combined a PDA, camera, and cell phone?

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the smartphone

129
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What did users call their BlackBerries?

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Crackberries

130
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Which company produced BlackBerry?

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Nokia

131
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Where was Nokia based?

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Finland

132
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Which OS did Nokia phones use?

A

Symbian

133
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Symbian was derived from an OS used by which other company?

A

Psion

134
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Who persuaded Jobs to use a touchscreen for the iPhone?

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Jony Ive

135
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Who was Jony Ive?

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the leader of design at Apple

136
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When was the first iPhone released?

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2007

137
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By the end of 2010, how many iPhones had Apple sold?

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90+ million

138
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The Android OS is based on what?

A

Linux

139
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When did Microsoft purchase Nokia’s phone division?

A

2014

140
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What was one of Apple’s and Android’s strengths?

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their app stores

141
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What did a blog allow users to do?

A

post content without having to manage a server or know HTML

142
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Who invented Wikipedia?

A

Ward Cunningham

143
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When was Wikipedia invented?

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1995

144
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Wikipedia is an example of what?

A

crowdsourcing

145
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What is crowdsourcing?

A

distributing the workload among your audience

146
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“wiki” is derived from which Hawaiian word?

A

wikiwiki

147
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What does wikiwiki mean?

A

quick

148
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What was Cunningham inspired by to make the name Wikipedia?

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seeing the word on the side of an airport shuttle in Honolulu

149
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What were 2 of the first social networking sites to be popular?

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MySpace and Friendster

150
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When were MySpace and Friendster launched?

A

2003

151
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Social media is an example of what?

A

the Web 2.0

152
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MySpace and Friendster were soon eclipsed by which other social networking site?

A

Facebook

153
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Which 2 social websites did Mark Zuckerberg make during his first semester at Harvard?

A

Course Match and Facemash

154
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What was Course Match?

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a site that allowed you to compare course schedules with someone else

155
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What was Facemash?

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a site where people rated others based on their appearances

156
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After taking which course did Zuck make Facebook?

A

graph theory

157
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What is graph theory?

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A math model for describing relationships among different things

158
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What was the original domain name for Facebook?

A

thefacebook.com

159
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When was Facebook released?

A

Feb 2004

160
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Unlike his previous projects, what was Facebook considered?

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a general purpose social network

161
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Initially, who did Zuck limit Facebook access to?

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people with an @harvard.edu email address

162
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Why did Zuck limit access to Facebook?

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to prevent fake profiles and keep his audience relatively small

163
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What did Zuck do to gradually gain more of audiences?

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he gave additional schools access to Facebook one by one

164
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When did Zuck move Facebook to California?

A

Summer 2004

165
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When did Facebook remove “the” from its name?

A

2005

166
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When was the News Feed added to Facebook?

A

2006

167
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When was Instagram made available as a smartphone app?

A

2010

168
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What was special about Instagram?

A

it was first made as an app and then added to web browsers

169
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When did Facebook acquire Instagram?

A

2012

170
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What 3 apps are mentioned in the resource guide that use GPS to function?

A

Uber, Lyft, and OpenTable

171
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What does OpenTable allow users to do?

A

it allows them to locate and make reservations at nearby restaurants

172
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When was the iPad introduced?

A

2010

173
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What category of device is an iPad?

A

tablet

174
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Who is Moore’s Law named after?

A

Gordon Moore

175
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What is Moore’s Law?

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a law that states that the number of transistors that can fit on a processor will double every 18-24 months

176
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When did Moore’s Law start becoming less true?

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the early 2000s

177
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What 2 factors caused Moore’s Law to become less true?

A

tinier transistors started to leak and more powerful chips used more power and created heat, which laptops try to conserve power

178
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How did Intel compromise performance without increasing clock speeds?

A

they put multiple processor cores on a single chip so they could share the workload, called multi-core processor

179
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What is one of the main reasons timesharing systems failed in the early 70s?

A

because of Moore’s Law

180
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As computers got cheaper, the cost for a data center was not the hardware, but which other factor?

A

the salaries of the people maintaining it

181
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What current technology is based off of timesharing systems?

A

cloud computing

182
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What audience is cloud computing beneficial for?

A

small businesses

183
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When did Netflix switch to Amazon’s data center?

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2016

184
Q

What is one of the key technologies behind cloud computing?

A

virtualization

185
Q

What is virtualization?

A

the ability to run multiple instances of an operating system on a computer to make “separate” computer without changing the computer

186
Q

What mainframe was virtualization used in?

A

the IBM System/370 mainframe

187
Q

Cloud computing gave rise to which other business model?

A

Software as a Service (SaaS)

188
Q

What is SaaS?

A

where users pay a subscription to access software through a web browser

189
Q

What was one of the first examples of SaaS?

A

Salesforce.com

190
Q

What is blockchain made up of?

A

ledgers

191
Q

What is a ledger used for?

A

tracking ownership and the value of things

192
Q

What aspect of blockchain makes it different from traditional ledgers?

A

each entry for the blockchain contains a hash derived from the contents of the previous entry

193
Q

What is a hash?

A

a sequence of bytes

194
Q

What does blockchain technology allow?

A

it allows for complete transparency because changing or modifying an entry will change the integrity of the entire ledger

195
Q

Blockchain is closely related to what technology?

A

bitcoin

196
Q

What is Bitcoin?

A

a digital currency not associated with any government

197
Q

Who invented Bitcoin?

A

Satoshi Nakamoto

198
Q

Who invented blockchain?

A

Satoshi Nakamoto

199
Q

What does NFTs stand for?

A

Non-Fungible Tokens

200
Q

NFTs are an example of which technology?

A

blockchain

201
Q

What does Non-fungible mean in the context of NFTs?

A

non-replaceable or unique

202
Q

How is the ownership of an NFT verified?

A

through the blockchain

203
Q

AI has been an active area of research since when?

A

the 50s

204
Q

Which programming language has been associated with the study of AI?

A

LISP

205
Q

Which figure mentioned earlier in the SS study guide was in the field of AI?

A

Richard Stallman

206
Q

What is machine learning or ML?

A

where algorithms analyze extremely large amounts of data to find patterns, and then apply those patterns to new inputs

207
Q

ML techniques are used in the design of what type of AI?

A

chatbots

208
Q

What is an example of a chatbot mentioned in the SS study guide?

A

ChatGPT

209
Q

When did Elon Musk announce that Tesla is working on intelligent robots?

A

2021

210
Q

In a traditional electronic computer, what is the basic unit?

A

the bit, a 0 or 1

211
Q

What are bits represented by in a traditional electronic computer?

A

high or low voltage

212
Q

What are bits represented by in a quantum computer?

A

the positions of electrons in an atom

Social Science Pentathlon 23-24 (4 decks)

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