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What event helped jump start a new era of U.S. government spending on technology?
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Sputniks orbit of the earth
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A solution to preventing logjams in data communication during the early days of computer development was called
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ARPA net
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Which of the following was NOT an early use of the Internet?
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multimedia sharing
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What helped to encourage private investment in the Net?
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The development of five new supercomputer centers in 1986 and The development of NSFNET, a high-speed communications network.
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During the 1990s, the Internet was used primarily for
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e-mail and Web page display
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What made the Web accessible to computer users who were using different operating systems?
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HTML and Web Browsers
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Xanga is an example of
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a social networking site
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The majority of today's bloggers
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don't use established editorial practices to check their facts
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Receiving automatic, unsolicited updates on topics that may be of interest to a user is a feature of
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Web 3.0
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Who owns in the internet?
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no one
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The popular site MapQuest is owned by
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AOL
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By the late 1990s, Web advertising began to shift to
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search engines
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Internet advertising has the unique advantage of being
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uniquely targeted
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The software developed by amateurs and other programmers who freely share source codes and ideas is called
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open source
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A costly form of Internet identity theft is
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phishing
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information-gathering software that is secretly bundled with free downloaded software.
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spyware
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Which of the following may be considered an unethical form of online information gathering for commercial profit?
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E-commerce and Cookies
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Which of the following is a site of an information gap
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Mobile web access via cell phones, High-speed broadband service, and Access to Internet service
