Exam 10: The Internet: Convergence in a Networked World

Someone who uses programming skills to gain illegal access to a computer network is called a

ARPANET, set up in 1969, is considered to be the original Internet.

Hyperlinks are highlighted words/images within a Web page that allow a user to move from one site to another.

An identifying number placed on the user's hard drive after visiting a Web site is called

______ percent of Americans own cell phones.

Match the term with the definition -Someone who uses programming skills to gain illegal access to computer files.

Match the Internet development to the year it occurred -America Online begins

What is "Web 2.0"? When did the term come about and what does it include?

By 2020, survey respondents believe touch user interfaces and ______ recognition will be more prevalent than they are now.

Match the term with the definition -Programs that track Internet users' activities and reportthem back to advertisers

______ is the practice of sending out official looking fake e-mails that use stolen brand names of businesses with the intent of luring the victim into revealing their passwords or account numbers.

Standardized codes that allow one computer to communicate with another are called

Match the inventors/innovators with their Internet/computer innovation -Microsoft

Discuss three online dangers.

The first national system of computers, prior to the Internet, was called ______.

The first truly mobile phone

An identifying code from a Web site that is placed a user's hard drive is known as a ______.

Packet switching is

Tim Berners-Lee patented the World Wide Web and initially made $5 million on it.

MySpace was purchased by Google in 2006.