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Treating all data sent across the internet as equal regardless of user, content, or platform.
Broadband
Cloud Storage
Hacking
Net Neutrality
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Napster was software that allowed users to swap music files. Who created it?
Terrence West
Shawn Fanning
Kevin Hartline
Erica Malone
3
This guy copied and leaked classified information from his job as a CIA agent.
Timothy Berners-Lee
Edward Snowden
Mark Zuckerberg
Linus Torvalds
4
BASIC was a computer language popularized in the 60's by this guy on the right from Dartmouth.
John Kemeny
Clifford Berry
Ted Hoff
Alan Turing
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In 1971, Dr. Ted Hoff of Intel Corporation developed what computer innovation?
sequential access memory
microprocessor
the mouse
random access memory
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This group releases standards for how the WWW should work.
IBM-Microsoft Rules Commision
W3C
Webby
Internic
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This guy founded Microsoft, which developed an OS for computer giant IBM.
Bill Gates
Mark Zuckerburg
Steven Jobs
Marc Andreeson
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Alan Turing developed these computers, to help break German codes during WWII?
Symtech 1200
ENIACs
Bombes
UNIVACs
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In 1994, Jerry Yang and David Filo co-founded what popular search directory?
Google
Yahoo!
AOL
IBM
10
What game, released in 1972, is credited with launching the video game revolution?
Pong
Snake
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Madden
11
Apple released a computer with a graphic user interface in 1984 named?
Honey Crisp
PC
Macintosh
SCR 2500
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The fears surrounding Y2K were centered around
only using 2 digits to record years in computer systems
retaliation by Germany over the breaking of their WWII codes
economic prosperity by .com startups
hacking attempts by Russia
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Why did the .com bubble burst around the year 2000?
Changes at the top of the W3C
global terrorism
The rapid rise in telecommuting
Internet startups weren't making money
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What did U.S. Robotics call their handheld personal organizer?
Robobot
iPaq
Palm Pilot
Palm Navigator
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Who built the 1st electronic digital computer?
John Mauchly
Dr. John V. Atanasoff & Clifford Berry
Ted Hoff
Alan Turing
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What genius PR move by the ENIAC helped spread the word about how a computer could be used?
Exploded a version of the ENIAC on live tv
Viral commercial series
Giveaways at local grocery store
Correctly predicted the Eisenhower presidential election
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Microsoft signed a technology agreement with which company in 1997?
Dell
Apple
IBM
Netscape
18
In 1969, this network was created. It was a predecessor to the Internet.
HyperNet
Ethernet
ARPANET
W3C
19
This guy invented the World Wide Web.
Steven Jobs
Dr. Ted Hoff
Timothy Berners-Lee
Al Gore
20
The Linux operating system was developed by
Leon Nucks
Larry Drib
Linus Torvalds
Leroy Cooper
21
When compared to other types of storage media, flash drives
are slower
are faster
can hold more data
can hold less data
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What was one of the earliest methods used for storing and retrieving information?
punch card system
RAM
integrated circuit
Electron-accelerator core
23
What scientific aristocrat in Britain created a machine called the Difference Engine?
Grace Hopper
Dr. Ted Hoff
Charles Babbage
Alan Turing
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Who worked along with Steve Jobs to create Apple?
Rollo Tomassi
Bill Gates
Steven Wozniak
Linus Torvalds
