Chapter 9: The Internet and New Technologies: The Media
Converge
True/False
1. The Internet was created by private enterprise, but it has been taken over and expanded by the
federal government.
2. Wikis are informative Web sites that are strictly controlled by professional editors.
3. Mosaic was the first user-friendly browser.
4. ARPAnet is a browser.
5. Microprocessors led to the development of personal computers.
6. The Internet was designed so that a centralized authority could control electronic
communication during a nuclear disaster.
7. The primary use of the Internet in the 1990s was social networking.
8. HTML stands for “HyperText Markup Language.”
9. Open-source software has code that can be updated by anyone interested in modifying it.
10. The iconic achievement of Web 2.0 is social networking.
11. “Cookies” are files that allow a Web site owner to chart the computer user’s movements within
the Web site and collect other information about the user.
12. Many Internet visionaries talk about Web 3.0 as the Romantic Web.
13. The Web is a participatory medium in which anyone can be involved.
14. Computer engineer Ray Tomlinson, who invented e-mail, established the “login name@host
computer” convention for e-mail addresses.
15. The Linux operating system was developed by Microsoft in an attempt to deter an antitrust suit
by the U.S. government.
16. Recent court decisions have upheld Congress’s authority to restrict children’s access to
pornographic Web sites.
17. Most Web sites follow an “opt–in” data policy when collecting information from online
consumers.
Multiple Choice
Note: The correct answer is asterisked.
18. Which of the following is not part of Web 2.0?
19. According to the text, which of the following technological advancements have aided the
Internet’s role in media convergence?
20. The Internet moved into the mass medium phase of development with the invention of
21. Facebook is a
22. Talking Points Memo is a leading
23. One form of media convergence is
24. How do major Web companies make money from e-mail?
25. User-created content on the Web includes which of the following phenomena?
26. What was the original motivation for developing the Internet?
27. What is the main difference between Linux software and Microsoft software?
28. ___________contain articles in chronological, journal-like form, often with reader comments
and links to other articles on the Web.
29. Information search services, such as Firefox and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, are known as
________________.
30. The socioeconomic disparity between those who do and those who do not have access to digital
technology and media, such as the Internet, is sometimes referred to as the _______________.
31. ______________________ is made of thin glass bundles that transmit thousands of messages
converted to shooting pulses of light.
32. Noncommercial software shared freely and developed collectively on the Internet is called
________________________.
33. ________________ is an Internet scam that begins with phony e-mail messages that pretend to
be from an official site.
34.ISP stands for Internet ________________ provider.
Essay
35. How was the early Internet established and developed? What was the motivation for developing
it?
36. Discuss the current and long-term consequences of digitization.
37. What are the key issues involving ownership of the Internet?
38. Explain the differences between Web 1.0, Web 2.0, and Web 3.0.
39. Briefly explain the concept of the “digital divide.”