New Applications — Unit #2: The World Wide Web: History and Definitions Quiz 1: Defining the Web
One kilobyte (KB) is equal to ____.
1024 bytes
The first web browsers that looked something like the web browsers that we know today were not created until ____.
1995
All human senses have their limitations. For example, the human ear can hear notes as high as ____.
20 kilohertz
In general, our brains are able to see _____ as fluid motion.
25 to 30 frames per second
a number system
Binary
The very first home computers were either a Radio Shack TRS-80 or a ____.
Commodore 64
Dynamic Name Service
DNS
Internet Protocol address
IP
Every computer on the Internet must have a unique address, expressed in an _____.
IP address
a group of eight
Octet
a wide area network
WAN
8 bits in length
a 1-byte computer word
a resident program
a browser program
The concept of non-streamable means ____.
a file that is only temporarily active in a live Internet connection
the practice of creating links
a hyperlink
a simple piece of software
a web browser
Apache
an open-source program
a foundational program
an operating system
An IP address is defined as a 32-bit ____.
binary number
The culture of the Internet is interlinked in dependence between technological advances and the way in which ____.
humans increased personal capacity by using these advances
It is important to understand that size and resolution are not ____.
independent of one another
owned by private companies
most IP address licenses
a continuous connection
nailed up
Each IP address in IPv4 has four ___.
octets
As this industry began to grow in popularity, CompuServe and AOL began issuing floppy discs that would load _____ onto your computer.
proprietary software
Prior to the World Wide Web as we know it today, the Internet was chaotic, without any ____.
protocols or standardization
Computing in the early days was a rental situation. You dialed into a mainframe and used it to ____.
run computations
A web browser does not care if the file it is viewing is on your computer or is hosted on a _____.
server
Early BBSs gave way to or evolved into newsgroups, which then evolved into actual online forums. These have all mostly disappeared in favor of ____.
social-networking sites
There are varying definitions for the term "dumb terminal," but it often refers to the fact that the terminal has ____.
specific known limitations
In the early 1980s, CompuServe had a chat program based on Citizen's Band radio. This has evolved into a popular form of communication called ____.
text messaging
a form of deconstructing
to reverse engineer
Sometimes a big file is good, and sometimes it is bad; sometimes you have to change the way a file is used to make it ____.
usable
LAN
where we see a public address
