Deck 6: The Internet: The Evolving Frontier

Question 1

The ____________ is to the Information Age as the automobile was to the Industrial Age.

A) Radio
B) Television
C) Internet
D) Satellite
E) Cellphone

Answer 1

Internet

Question 2

What drove the development of the internet?

A) Reconstruction after World War II
B) The Cold War
C) The desire for profit
D) A need to replace the telegraph
E) Al Gore

Answer 2

The Cold War

Question 3

The precursor to the internet was what?

A) NCSA
B) ICANN
C) ARPA
D) ARPANET
E) CERN

Answer 3

ARPANET

Question 4

Early computer activities and the precursor of the internet led to the utilization of ________ talent.

A) University
B) Military
C) International
D) Commercial
E) Public

Question 5

The initial four academic sites of the precursor to the internet included all but which of the following?

A) University of California Los Angeles
B) University of California Santa Barbara
C) University of Utah
D) Stanford University
E) MIT

Question 6

Which of the below is not an integral element of the internet, according to the book?

A) E-mail
B) File Transfer Protocol
C) Video Games
D) Chat systems
E) Newsgroups

Question 7

____________ provided the initial funding of the precursor of the internet.

A) Microsoft
B) The Department of Defense
C) Stanford University
D) The National Science Foundation
E) MIT

Question 8

________________ are client software used to communicate across the internet and thus serve as a key component of the internet.

A) FTP
B) HTML
C) Browsers
D) Operating systems
E) All of the above

Question 9

______________ oversees the assignment of domain names and internet protocols.

A) NCSA
B) ICANN
C) ARPA
D) ARPANET
E) CERN

Question 10

Who invented HTML?

A) Bill Gates
B) Tim Berners-Lee
C) Marc Andreessen
D) Steve Jobs
E) Steve Wozniak

Question 11

_________ is the web browser that first popularized the internet.

A) Netscape
B) Internet Explorer
C) Gopher
D) Mosaic
E) Safari

Question 12

The first e-mail program was written in which decade?

A) 1950s
B) 1960s
C) 1970s
D) 1980s
E) 1990s

Question 13

IBM entered the PC market in 1981 with which partner(s)?

A) Apple Computers
B) Intel
C) Microsoft
D) Both A & B
E) Both B & C

Question 14

Which of the below organizations focus on music piracy on the internet?

A) MPAA
B) RIAA
C) ICANN
D) ARPA
E) None of the above

Question 15

________________, based in Sweden, was sued by the MPAA and others over copyright issues in 2009.

A) Napster
B) Google
C) Microsoft
D) YouTube
E) The Pirate Bay

Question 16

In 2009, Google was sued by the European Commission over what issue?

A) Copyrighted Videos
B) Audio Sharing
C) Google Books
D) Having a Monopoly
E) Chrome

Question 17

Which country is set to be the largest user of the Internet?

A) The United States
B) China
C) India
D) Russia
E) Brazil

Question 18

Which of the following is not a social networking site?

A) MySpace
B) Facebook
C) Hulu
D) Twitter
E) LinkedIn

Question 19

Peripheral nations view ICANN as what?

A) Progressive
B) Having little power
C) A truly multi-lateral organization
D) American dominated
E) Not worth much attention

Question 20

According to the book, which of the below is not true?

A) To date, the internet has evolved in core nations
B) The internet will revolutionize virtually every industry
C) The greatest growth of the internet will continue to be across core nations .
D) Electronic commerce and multimedia will continue to expand globally
E) Capturing user and consumer behavior will become more important and pervasive over time

Question 21

The inventions and technologies involved with international communication started quickly, coming one right after another.

Question 22

The infrastructure for global communications was put into place after World War II.

Question 23

Wireless systems started as ship-to-shore devices.

Question 24

Initially, newsgroups developed and expanded based on military departments.

Question 25

In 1990, the internet was mainly text based with rudimentary graphic interfaces.

Question 26

Microsoft was found to have engaged in monopolistic tactics through the embedding of its browser into its operating system in 1999, however it successfully appealed the decisions in both the United States and European Union.

Question 27

Video games spurred the development of a faster, more graphically enhanced and interactive World Wide Web.

Question 28

In 1998, more personal computers were sold than televisions.

Question 29

The original internet was designed as a wide-casting system.

Question 30

One of the largest uses of the Internet's to date was on September 11, 2001..

Question 31

E-mail letters to politicians are largely ignored and have virtually no impact.

Question 32

The Olympic committee aggressively protects its trademarks.

Question 33

Film copyright violations and movie sharing comprises over 45 percent of online illegal activity.

Question 34

In 2012-13, North America accounted for over 50 percent of all internet usage.

Question 35

It is estimated that there are over 100 new internet viruses per week.

Question 36

In 2012, Online advertising revenue overtook print advertising revenue.

Question 37

The Dan Rather and CBS controversy was the first substantial blogger-driven event.

Question 38

Semi-peripheral and peripheral nations are constantly playing catch-up with core nations and internet technology.

Question 39

According to ECT, internet users, regardless of time or space, will mentally converge over time.

Question 40

Discuss the impact of the internet on government reports in the United States.

Question 41

The internet now provides a forum where a story, video, picture, etc. can go immediately public worldwide. What are the positives and negatives of this aspect? Give an example of each.

Question 42

How has the internet changed the global distribution of films and movies for Hollywood?

Question 43

Although North America accounts for less than 12% of the world's internet traffic, George Barnett described the United States as the "nucleus of internet traffic." Explain how this is true.