Exam 10: The Internet: Convergence in a Networked World

What are some of the sites that charge for access to their Web pages? Why do you think people are willing to pay for access to these sites?

Match the Internet development to the year it occurred -CompuServe begins operating

What were the differences between the first two commercial, general interest online services?

What is e-commerce? What are examples of it? Elaborate on your experiences using e-commerce.

What are pro and con arguments about using Twitter?

Users share their homemade videos and favorite movie/TV clips on ______, which the textbook calls "the epitome of user-generated content."

Software codes that enable one computer to communicate with another are called

A 2004 federal law to address spam

Radio technology and telephone technology were developed by the same inventor.

A ______ is someone who uses programming skills to gain illegal access to computer networks or files.

Match the inventors/innovators with their Internet/computer innovation -Apple Computer

Facebook and Hotmail use the concept of cloud computing.

Critics worry that ______ (online games like EverQuest and the Sims) have an addictive quality.

MMORPGs are

How Internet communication has revolutionized commerce can be explained by the "long tail" concept.

What does the textbook mean by the "YouTube Phenomenon"?

Right now, Internet control is

Match the Internet development to the year it occurred -ARPANET established

The term "mashup" originated in the music world, where it refers to combining parts of different songs.

Snopes.com is a Web site that