Telecommunications 131: Quiz 10
The Internet of Things, in which everyday objects have built-in network connectivity that allows them to send and receive data, is not expanding as quickly as it might because of ...
Concerns of privacy
The intensity of the online world can sometimes trigger ________ in teens.
Facebook Depression
Resenting the positive posts of friends on social media is known as ...
Facebook Envy
Facebook depression is not recognized by the American Academy of Pediatrics. T/F
False
Sensing that the future of computing was in personal computers and that computers' power would reside not in their size but in the software that ran them, _____________ dropped out of Harvard University in 1975 and, with his friend _____________, founded Microsoft Corporation.
. Bill Gates; Paul Allen
The "originator of the computer" was _____________, an Englishman who in 1836 produced designs for a "computer" that could conduct algebraic computations using stored memory and punch cards for input and output.
Charles Babbage
The electronic tracking of the choices people make when they are surfing the Web is their ...
Click Stream
The first "full-service" electronic computer, _____________, was based on the work of Iowa State University's John V. Atanasoff and introduced by scientists John Mauchly and John Presper Eckert of the University of Pennsylvania in 1946.
ENIAC
There is little doubt that municipal broadband is a fundamental right that should be available to all citizens. T/F
False
hen people go online, the click streams they leave provide them with privacy protection. T/F
False
The software that tells a computer how to work is called its
Operating System
Proponents of Internet freedom see its _____________ as providing protection for unpopular expression; proponents of greater Internet control see it as the Internet's greatest danger.
anonymity
A _____________ is a personal web page that comments on the news and provides links to stories that back up the commentary with evidence.
blog
The idea that social media users tend to show idealized characteristics that don't represent who they are is the ...
idealized virtual identity hypothesis.
The development of the _____________—with its small size, absence of heat, and low cost—made personal computers possible.
semiconductor
