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Baran: Internet

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show The net is a product of the Cold War; internet was initially built to protect national security in the face of nuclear attack  
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The global network of innterconnected computers that communicate freely and share and exchange information is called   show
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The "Father of the Computer" was   show
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The first electronic digital computer was....... and was developed by the British during WWII to help break the German's secret code   show
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show Binary  
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The first "full service" electronic computer..... was based on the work of Iowa State university's John V. Atanasoff and introduced by scientisits John Mauchly and John Presper Eckert of the University of Pennsylvania in 1946   show
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The first succesful commercial computer, used by the Census Bureau in 1951 was   show
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show Paul Baran  
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show hosts  
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The development of the ......... (with its small size, absence of heat, and low cost) made personal computers possible   show
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The Apple II personal computer was developed by   show
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show Internet  
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show Social Networking sites  
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A ...... is a personal Web Journal that comments on the news and provides links to stories that back up the commentary with evidence   show
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show activist  
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The abailabilty of trustworthy ...... -- coding and decoding--- technologies that make online use of credit and bank card numbers, addresses, social security numbers, and other sensitive information safer for both seller and buyer has made Int. a Bus. plc   show
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Proponents of Internet freedom see its..... as providing protection for unpopular expression; proponents of greater Internet control see it as the Internets greatest danger   show
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show Those who own the presses  
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show central nervous system  
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McLuhan's idea that new communication technologies will permit people to become increasingly involved in one anothers lives is his concept of....   show
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The widening disparity between the communication technology haves and have-nots is referred to as   show
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The lack of technological access among people of color, the poor, the disabled, and those living in rural areas is called the...   show
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show True  
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When people go online, the click streams they leave provide them with privacy protection   show
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show False  
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Operating Systems   show
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ISPs   show
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What is the heart of the web?   show
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show software that allows users to navigate the Net simply by entering a search word and point and clicking at the results  
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How is the Internet's "audience" different than other mediums?   show
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show technology alone cannot create new worlds or ways of seeing them; we use tech. to do these things; the power resides in us to either use it for good or bad  
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show McLuhan; the idea that the new communication technologies will permit people to become increasingly involved in one another lives  
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show protecting children; therefore government in-placed filters in schools  
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show the right to maintain control over own own data  
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show dataveillance  
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show restricting governments' ability to collect and distribute information about citizens  
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show those without the requisite technology will have diminished access to the information it makes available-- they will suffer from a form of technologically imposed censorship  
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