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W2: Introduction to the Digital Age Flashcards

1
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It is a period in human history that started when computers were introduced in the 1970s

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Digital Age

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Rapid shift from mechanical industrialization to technological innovation

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Digital Age

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The Digital Age is also termed as ______ ,______, or_______

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the Information Age, Computer Age, or New Media Age

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What is ICT

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Information and Communication Technology

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pertains to the unification and integration of telecommunication lines (wireless or not), computers, software and systems that enable access, storage, transmittal, and manipulation of information

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ICT

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It concentrates on advancing the way we communicate in the information or digital age

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ICT

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7
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Imaginative Art or some form of communication were discovered by archeologist in …

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Cave painting and Carve stones

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cave paintings and carved stones were done by _________ that dates backs to around what year

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Neanderthals or early homo sapiens; 130,000 to 100,000 BC

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use of homing pigeons which date back to no less than….

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2,900 BC

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____ pigeons were additionally utilized for correspondence in China, India, persia, and numerous parts of Asia

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Homing

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11
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The Egyptian army utilized ____ pigeons for military correspondence

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bearer

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12
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Around _____ BC, King ________ sent a homing pigeon out with every one of his detachments.

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2350 BC. King Sargon of Akkadia

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By_____, _______ pigeons were being utilized to convey the news of Olympic triumphs to Athens

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776, transporter

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the story of ____ is that which inspired the sporting spectacle of Marathon running

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Pheidippides

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Pheidippides an Athenian Herald or courier was said to have run from _____ to ____

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Marathon to Athens

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Why did Pheidippides ran from Marathon to Athens

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to report that the Greeks won against the Persians in the Battle of Marathon

17
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The first daily newspaper ever distributed was

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Einkommende Zeitungen

18
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What year was the first daily newspaper and what place

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July 1, 1650 in Leipzig, Germany

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What does Einkommende Zeitungen mean

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approaching daily papers

20
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The Telegraph was created in the (year) by (name)

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1840s, Samuel Morse

21
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Samuel Morse year of birth and death

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1791-1872

22
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It worked by transmitting electrical flags over a wire laid between stations

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Telegraph

23
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What code did Samuel Morse built

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Morse code

24
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Alexander Grahan Bell year of birth and death

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1847-1922

25
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worked at a school for the hard of hearing while at the same time endeavoring to imagine a machine that would transmit sound by power

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Alexander Graham Bell

26
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What date was Bell awarded the principal official patent for his phone

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March 7, 1876

27
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who pioneered the first long-distance radio transmission and what year

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Guglielmo Marconi in 1901

28
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the first long-distance- radio transmission and transmitted to the first transatlantic radio signal from ____ to _____

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Cornwall to Newfoundland

29
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In (date), (company) held the first public demonstration of long-distance TV image transmission

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April 7, 1927, AT&T (The Bell Company)

30
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Reporters watched as a TV image of Secretary of _____ (name) was sent from _____ to _____ by phone lines

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Commerce, Herbert Hoover, Washington D.C., New York

31
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Inter-networking began when packet switching networks which included the ______ of the ________ joined multiple separate networks into a networks or networks

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APARNET project, US Protection Office

32
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World Wide Web was developed from ____ to ____ at the _______ and was made freely available to the world in ____

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1989-1994, European Council for Nuclear Research, 1994

33
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Instant messaging began in the ______

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70s and 80s

34
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AOL or American Online gained popularity in

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May 1997

35
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In ____ the word blog sprung up and after 5 years the term was announced expression of the year by_____

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1999, Merriam-Webster

36
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the world’s most mainstream interpersonal interaction site

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Facebook

37
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Facebook was launched when and by who

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February 2004, Mark Zuckerberg

38
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Twitter was created by who and when

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Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Business Stone, Evan William in 2006

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