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An early information-based service in Britain using a portion of the television spectrum to convey information was called: |
| | A) | Minitel |
| | B) | Prodigy |
| | C) | Ceefax |
| | D) | Vidatext |
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Early videotex services in the United States designed to serve as electronic newspapers were met with ________ success. |
| | A) | Great |
| | B) | Little |
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The French Minitel service is a _________ videotext systems. |
| | A) | One-way |
| | B) | Two-way |
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Early general use information services in the United States were built by |
| | A) | The military |
| | B) | Private entrepreneurs |
| | C) | Educational institutions |
| | D) | The government |
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The first commercial information service conceived as an online magazine was: |
| | A) | The Source |
| | B) | Compuserve |
| | C) | Prodigy |
| | D) | AOL |
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Internet Service Providers did not meet with immediate success in the United States because: |
| | A) | Early modem speeds were slow |
| | B) | Access numbers were limited to large urban areas |
| | C) | Per-minute telephone charges were high |
| | D) | All of the above were cited by the book |
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Which of the following services spurred the growth of local Internet Service Providers in the 1990s? |
| | A) | MCImail made it possible to access e-mail accounts in 1989 |
| | B) | Prodigy offered an online magazine |
| | C) | Tim Berners-Lee's development of the World Wide Web |
| | D) | ARPANET was developed |
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The Internet is owned by: |
| | A) | The United States government |
| | B) | The Internet Society |
| | C) | The World Wide Web Consortium |
| | D) | No one entity |
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The Internet is regulated by |
| | A) | The Unites States and other countries that use it |
| | B) | The United Nations through the International Telecommunications Union |
| | C) | The member groups who make up the Internet Society |
| | D) | None of the above |
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Which of the following organizations is not an authorized user of the Internet? |
| | A) | Government agencies |
| | B) | Educational institutions |
| | C) | Commercial and business institutions |
| | D) | All of the above are legitimate users of the Internet |
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The key to retrieving information from an Internet site is the: |
| | A) | Universal resource locator |
| | B) | Top-level domain name of the site |
| | C) | Hypertext mark-up language |
| | D) | internet Service Provider |
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The most popular services on the Internet are: |
| | A) | E-mail |
| | B) | The World Wide Web |
| | C) | Instant messaging |
| | D) | All of the above |
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Of the major Internet browsers, only Internet Explorer can display hypertext mark-up language documents. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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'Streaming' refers to a technology that |
| | A) | Allows you to play audio on your computer |
| | B) | Plays video back after it is loaded on your computer |
| | C) | Displays text and graphics |
| | D) | Starts playing audio or video before the entire file has loaded on your computer |
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The fastest download time would be associated with |
| | A) | A 56 kps modem |
| | B) | An ISDN line |
| | C) | A cable modem |
| | D) | A 14.4 kps modem |
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A portal may be defined as |
| | A) | Any web site |
| | B) | An entrance or a doorway |
| | C) | A search engine |
| | D) | A series of hyperlinks |
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According to your book, a portal is the place where people can congregate, chat and share ideas online. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Media companies are counting on Web users to continue to visit large portal sites frequently. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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While Napster was ordered to shut down, Morpheus, Kazaa, and other file sharing programs remain because: |
| | A) | They require users to pay for file downloads |
| | B) | They do not store directories of files on a central computer |
| | C) | They pay copyright licenses |
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For TV producers and advertisers, the World Wide Web can be |
| | A) | A vehicle for providing secondary material about their product |
| | B) | A vehicle for rebroadcasting material that appeared on radio or television |
| | C) | A vehicle for coordinated marketing and programming beyond the geographic boundaries of the current broadcast outlets |
| | D) | all of the above |
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In 2001, a court decision regarding copyright forced many radio stations to pull their audio streams from the Web. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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According to the research reported in your book, the majority of Web users believe that online news is _______ objective than other traditional news sources such as television and newspapers. |
| | A) | Less |
| | B) | More |
| | C) | Just as |
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Internet radio and television stations require an FCC license to broadcast on the WWW. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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According to your book, advanced technology will make the Internet ______ attractive to distribute and deliver audio and video directly to the consumer in the future. |
| | A) | Less |
| | B) | More |
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