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| How are computers used in Everyday American Life? |
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- information society
- changed the way we do everyday tasks (banking, phone calls, airplane reservations) |
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| How are the media industries combining? |
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| - buying and selling each other |
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| Who is known for creating MIT's media lab? |
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| With Technologies merging, what are media and computers creating a new type of? |
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| - Secret computer built by the British to break German codes |
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| Who came up with the desktop device? |
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| What does ENIAC stand for? |
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| - Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer |
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| - First general purpose computer |
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| How much did ENIAC weigh and how many tubes did it have? |
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- weighed thirty tons
- 17,468 vacuum tubes |
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| Who were John Mauchly & J. Presper Eckert and what did they do? |
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- pioneers of the computer
- invented the ENIAC
- University of Pennsylvania |
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| - development of the Intel 4004 sillicon chip, that holds thousands of transistors |
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| What is the MITS Altair 8800? |
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- first personal comptuer
- sold for $397
- No keyboard, no monitor, no storage |
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| What was the cover of the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics? |
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| What inspired Paul Allen and Bill Gates to form Microsoft? |
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| - the MITS Altair 8800 on cover of the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics |
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| - Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs |
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| What could the apple II do and how much did it sell for? |
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- Could do useful work (Spreadsheet, word processing)
- Sold for $1,300 |
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| What is the Windows operating system? |
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- User friendly operating system for DOS computers
- as easy to use as the Mac |
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| - Bill Gates and Paul Allen |
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- Network of computer networks
- Ties together networks built by government, universities, businesses |
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- Created programming to share scientific text, graphics and video electronically through links between sources
- Named the sharing network the “World Wide Web”
- Developed the first browser |
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| What browser did Marc Andreesen create in 1994? |
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| What did the development of the search engine do? |
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- it expanded the use of the web
- google, yahoo, etc. |
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| - free information access, coupled with a creative, chaotic lack of direction that still permeates the Web today |
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| what is the Internet content is characterized by? |
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- World Wide Web
- Advertising, online shopping, promotion and other commercial ventures |
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| What was the early content of the internet? |
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| - correspondence and research |
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| what was the theory popularized by Nicholas Negroponte in 1978? |
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| What did IBM release in 1955? |
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| Why is the internet considered an information-based economy? |
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| - Creating and distributing information |
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| What is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)? |
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- Passed by Congress in 1998
- May NOT share copyrighted material on the internet |
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| What is considered an already copyrighted material? |
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| - Recordings, books and movies |
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| What was the Communications Decency Act, 1996? |
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| - first attempt to restrict Internet content but was struck down by U.S. Supreme Court |
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| What is intellectual property and is protected on the internet? |
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| - creative works and no it is not protected |
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| What did the internet develop from? |
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| - (ARPAnet)Advanced Research Projects Agency Network |
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| What does ARPAnet stand for? |
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| - advanced Research Projects Agency Network |
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| What happened to Napster? |
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| - Napster was found liable for copyright infringement |
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| How much did MP3 have to pay in damages? |
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| What happened to Grokster in 2005? |
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| - they were shut down after reaching a settlement with the RIAA and MPAA |
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| What is the digital divide? |
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| refers to the gap between individuals, households, businesses and geographic areas at different socio-economic levels with regard both to their opportunities to access information and communications technologies (ICTs) and to their use of the Internet for a wide variety of activities |
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| What is happening to the Digital divide and why? |
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| - seems to be narrowing considerably because of access to the Internet in libraries and Low-cost options being offered by companies |
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| This person created the “Sketchpad” as well as Inventions such as cursor and the window. |
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