Chapter 9 Quiz 1

Question 1

What event helped jump start a new era of U.S. government spending on technology?

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Question 2

A solution to preventing logjams in data communication during the early days of computer development was called ________.

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Question 3

The first Net messages ever were sent in _______.

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Question 4

Which of the following was NOT an early use of the Internet?

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Question 5

What helped to encourage private investment in the Net?

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Question 6

During the 1990s, the Internet was used primarily for _______.

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Question 7

What made the Web accessible to computer users who were using different operating systems?

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Question 8

Pinterest is an example of ________.

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Question 9

The majority of today’s bloggers _________.

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Question 10

Receiving automatic, unsolicited updates on topics that may be of interest to a user is a feature of ______.

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Question 11

Who owns the Internet?

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Question 12

Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, and Firefox are all examples of what?

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Question 13

By the late 1990s, Web advertising began to shift to ____________.

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Question 14

Internet advertising has the unique advantage of being _________.

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Question 15

The software developed by amateurs and other programmers who freely share source codes and ideas is called ______.

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Question 16

Which of the following Internet activities requires a user to reveal personal information?

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Question 17

A costly form of Internet identity theft is ________.

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Question 18

________ is information-gathering software that is secretly bundled with free downloaded software.

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Question 19

Which of the following may be considered an unethical form of online information gathering for commercial profit?

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Question 20

Which of the following is an example of a digital divide?

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