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| Internet Service Provider |
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| a worldwide,publicly accessible series of interconnected computer networks |
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| break info into small addressed, organized units, so that ever time a node gets a packet it tries to move it closer to its destination |
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| connects all networks together |
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| The internet is a network of _________ linked by ______. |
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| The WWW is a network of __________ and ___________ linked by ___________. |
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| documents/resources/hyperlinks |
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| We use the ___ to access the web. |
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| Examples of client applications |
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| internet explorer, outlook express, AIM |
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| Examples of server/network app |
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| Example of Internet Protocol |
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| What year did the web become very popular? |
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| What is another term for search engines? |
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| What 3 contexts can internet be understood within? |
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| Technological, Political, Economic |
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| In what year did Russians launch the first space rocket? |
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| What is the name of the first artificial sattelite that was launched? |
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| In response to what event did the US department of defense create ARPA? |
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| Russians launch of SPUTNIK, and US was then driven to maintain technological edge |
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| What does ARPA stand for? |
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| Advanced Research Projects Agency |
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| US efforts to maintain technological edge and to fund projects wtih military potential |
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| What does electric communication look like? And what is wrong with it? |
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| [image]Unreliable and needed to decentrilize |
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| What was the solution to electric communication and the central control hub? |
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| What does packet switching look like? |
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| [image]No Central Hub, everyone loosely connected to everyone else |
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| When was ARPANET started? |
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| 1st nationwide packet switched network- used primarily as a medium of communication for researchers |
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| What was created by the National Science Foundation as a successor to ARPANET? |
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| What is an Operating System? (OS) |
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| the basic software that runs on computer hardware |
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| What operating system became very popular in the 1980s? |
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In what communities was Linux most popular within? |
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| Transmission Control Protocol |
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| IP (internet protocol) does what? |
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| which defines the datagrams or packets that carry blocks of data from one node to another |
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| TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) does what? |
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| TCP makes a virtual 'connection', which gives some level of guarantee of reliability. |
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| refers to a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services — such as social-networking sites, wikis and folksonomies — which aim to facilitate collaboration and sharing between users. |
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| is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts. An RSS document, which is called a "feed," "web feed," or "channel," contains either a summary of content from an associated web site or the full text. RSS makes it possible for people to keep up with their favorite web sites in an automated manner that's easier than checking them manually. |
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| is the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content. |
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| A fundamental pioneer in the call for a global network, |
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| still developing countries began to feel further separated from those countries that had the internet |
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| What did Internet Service Providers begin doing in the late 1980s? |
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| Selling access to the Internet i.e. AOL |
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| Text that when clicked on leads to links |
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| a global information medium which users can read and write via computers connected to the Internet |
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| graphical browser developed by team at National Center for Supercomputing application, eventually changed name to netscape in 1994/ turning point because it was the start of navigators/browsers |
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| began in 1998 resulting from low interest rates which increased the start-up capital amounts for entreprenuers to start their business online |
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| Free has multiple meanings in English.. Free as in _____; free as in _____. |
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| The ability to share ______ is built into the Internet. |
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| a program that allows a computer to perform a specific task ie. windows XP, solitaire, firefox |
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| an exclusive right to a particular expression of an idea |
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| Provides monoply protection for investigations |
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| Developed GNU (free operating system), started "copyleft" |
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| removes restrictions on the distribution of copies and modifies versions of work for others, developed by richard stallman |
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Stallman and software freedom: What are the principle freedoms? |
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- run program for any purpose
- study and modify program
- copy program to help neighbor
- improve program and release your improvements to the public so that the whole community benefits
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| operating system modeled on UNIX |
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| Linus Torvalds, finnish grad student in 1991 |
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| Torvald and Stallman combined their work to create what? |
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| The first complete free operating system. |
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| What more "business friendly" term replaced the term "free software?" |
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| What are the benefts of open-source software? |
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- generall free (as in beer)
- possible to modify/update/change
- freedom from "lock in"
- rapid response to problems in the community
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| What are the various defintions of privacy? |
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| privacy as a right, privacy as a private good, privacy as a public |
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| what is exposed in public should be felt in private |
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| what is felt in private should be exposed in public |
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| prisoners never know if they are being watched so they are always good |
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| How is identity established offline? |
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- identity is a social psychological construct
- unity of the self- linkage of body with identity
- group affiliations
- personal qualities
- reputation
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| quality of not being identifiable |
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| using a false name to disguise a real identity |
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| to impersonate a trusted source in the attempt to gain access to restricted info |
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| testing the dependability of a signal |
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| the estimation in which a person or thing is help esp by the community or public |
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how identity is communicated
Ex:speech and language, body lang, facial exp, dress and fashion |
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| How is indentiy communicated? |
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| Through intentional and unintentional signaling |
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assessment: high cost/reliability
conventional: low cost/reliability |
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| dangers of online deception |
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| scams, spam, identity theft, identity issues |
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| reasons ppl are motivated to give gifts |
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- reciprocity
- reputation
- sense of efficiency
- need
- attachment
- altruism
- info on internet became a public good
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