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Twitter was originally created so people could share their answers to the question:
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what are you doing?
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Paul Baran's idea of cutting messages into small pieces and sending them on the easiest route was known as which of the following?
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packet switching
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ARPAnet, a predecessor of the Internet, was created to do which of the following?
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allow incompatible computers to talk with each other
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who developed TCP/IP, the original specification for the Internet's protocols?
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bob kahn and vint cerf
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Which of the following is the address for where Web pages are located?
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url
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The first Web browser that could handle graphics was called which of the following?
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mosaic
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People connect to the Internet using which of the following?
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all the above
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The movie that revolutionized Internet-based promotion of films was which of the following?
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blair witch project
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_____ is/are a major new medium of mass communication?
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video games
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The word cyberspace is used to mean which of the following?
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the internet and the interactions that take place there
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Cyberpunk literature and films deal with which of the following themes?
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the differences between humans and machines
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World-wide, ____ percent of the population has access to the Internet.
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24
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n the United States, ____ percent of the population has access to the Internet at home.
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73
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On a Web site, cookies are which of the following?
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files used to identify and track visitors at a Web sites
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Web sites use _____ to track users while they are on the site.
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small files called cookies
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Astronomer and computer expert Clifford Stoll says that people should spend _______ time online.
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less
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Twitter's big innovation was:
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connecting mobile Internet, mobile phones, and computer-based Internet as part of a single channel
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radio and the Internet have which of the following in common?
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They both were initially developed as tools for machine-assisted interpersonal communication.
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The next-generation Internet will be used primarily for which of the following?
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providing high quality video and audio links
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According to Tim Berners-Lee, which of the following is a principle upon which the Web is based?
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Users should be able to link to any document at anywhere in the world.
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The World Wide Web became the standard for posting documents on the Internet because its creator did which of the following?
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gave it away for free
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An advantage that Web sites run by legacy media have over purely new media sites is which of the following?
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have reliable source of content
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The New York Times, the Washington Post, and USA Today could all be considered _________ media outlets.
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click and mortar
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Video games could be considered a new mass medium because:
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The consoles can be used to deliver a range of media content, and video games are becoming a new way to deliver advertising.
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Cyberpunk author William Gibson has expressed concern over which of the following?
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that people will get such specialized news through online filters that they will be isolated from news they need
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One of the big advantages of distributing a movie over the Internet instead of in theaters is which of the following?
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the cost of online distribution is close to zero
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Which of the following tends to be true of user-written encyclopedias such as Wikipedia?
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They tend to have articles on a wide range of topics.
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Which of the following are true of Chinese bloggers?
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They can be punished if they are critical of the government.
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Arthur Sulzberger, publisher of the New York Times, has said which of the following?
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The 'Times' is in the business of selling news and advertising space
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