CGS1060: Technology Ch 4 HW

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The seeds of the Internet were planted in 1969 with ___, which connected computers at four universities in the western United States.

ARPANET

Which of the following is NOT a web browser?

Bing

___ are small data files that are created by websites in order to remember users and their preferences the next time they visit the site.

Cookies

Although a MOOC allows any individual to register for online classes at Harvard and MIT, their high registration cost has limited their popularity.

False

DSL technology is currently faster than cable or fiber-optics.

False

The Internet is managed centrally by the United States government, as it was primarily developed in this country.

False

Twitter restricts posts, or tweets, to a maximum of 180 characters.

False

Many companies and specialty websites offer ___, or discussion boards, where individuals can ask questions and reply to each other.

Forums

___ is the act of having an online, text-based conversation with one or more individuals that occurs in real time.

Instant messaging

In which of the following social networking sites are you most likely to find professionals who seek to make business-related connections?

Linkedin

The most popular method for file transfer today is known as ___ file sharing, which uses a distributed network of individual users instead of a central server.

P2P

Social news sites, such as ___, encourage users to share links to news and other interesting content they find on the Web.

Reddit

___ are sophisticated services that store the URL of millions of web pages and most of the content on those pages.

Search engines

"192.168.1.101" is an example of an IPv4 address.

True

3G, 4G, and LTE are all terms that refer to mobile Internet connectivity.

True

If you visit a website or page that you would like to remember for the future, you can add it to your browser's bookmarks or favorites.

True

One of the most powerful features of Google Maps is Street View, which shows you almost any part of a map as if you were driving through that street.

True

PayPal and Google Wallet are both examples of online payment services that allow you to pay for goods online and transfer money to other individuals.

True

Web pages have a standard addressing system known as a(n) ___, which allows them to be located on the Internet.

URL

___, which can connect to the telephone network, translates analog voice signals into digital data and uses the Internet to transport the data.

VoIP

___ is not always considered to be a reliable site because you cannot be certain that the information you are reading comes from a credible source.

Wikipedia

If you want to include a file with your email message, it should be placed it in the __ area.

attachments

Any email address placed in the ___ will be invisible to the recipients of your message.

bcc

A(n) ___ is a web page or small website that contains a series of chronological posts and comments.

blog

The term ___ is used to describe any digital data connection that can transmit information faster than standard dial-up by using a wider band of frequencies.

broadband

A ___, such as apple.com and whitehouse.gov, uniquely identifies a site and a brand on the Web.

domain name

Twitter popularized a system that uses the ___ symbol to mark keywords or topics in a message.

hashtag

In the model known as ___, advertisers pay for their ads only when a website visitor clicks on the ad.

pay-per-click

Browser ___, such as Adobe Flash Player, are separate programs that allow your web browser to play several types of multimedia content.

plug-ins

The ___ is a global system of linked, hypertext documents.

world wide web

Which of the following are web browsers?

-Safari -Chrome -Firefox


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