Mass Comm Chapter 2
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The Internet was originally created to transport messages more rapidly for an increasingly sedentary and isolated population.
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The Internet originated as a military and government project.
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ARPAnet is a browser.
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The Internet is a hierarchically structured and centralized network.
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The Internet is owned and operated by the federal government, which has the power to shut it down when necessary.
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Computer engineer Ray Tomlinson established the "login name@host computer" convention for e-mail addresses.
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The introduction of microprocessors, miniature circuits made of silicon, made personal computers possible.
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HTML stands for "hypertext markup language."
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Netscape overtook Internet Explorer as the most popular Web browser in the late 1990s.
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In the 1990s, AOL was the top Internet service provider in the United States.
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E-mail was one of the earliest services of the Internet.
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By 2012, Bing had more than 66 percent of the search engine market share.
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Flickr is an online content community for sharing videos.
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Google+ is a social networking site that is designed to compete with Facebook.
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Facebook is the most popular social media site on the Internet.
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The BlackBerry was the first popular Internet-capable smartphone in the United States.
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Apple sells more than 25 million tablets each year.
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MMORPG stands for "massively multiplayer online role-playing game."
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The 1996 Telecommunications Act encouraged mergers and joint ventures among phone companies and cable operators.
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Google is a subsidiary of YouTube.
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Amazon is the world's largest e-commerce store
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Facebook uses profile information to deliver targeted and personalized ads to its users.
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"Cookies" are files that allow a Web site owner to chart the computer user ís movements within the Web site and collect other information about the user.
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Most Web sites follow an "opt-in" data policy when collecting information from online consumers.
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that efforts to ban indecent and obscene material on the Web through the Communications Decency Act of 1996 were unconstitutional.
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The Children's Internet Protection Act of 2000 requires schools and libraries that receive federal funds for Internet access to filter out pornographic Web sites.
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Linux is an example of open-source software.
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