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Exploring the Internet: A Knowledge Quiz

This quiz assesses knowledge on various aspects of the Internet, including VoIP, email, social collaboration, and historical innovations.

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1 VoIP stands for Voice-over-________, referring to the protocol that underlies all Internet communication.

2 Wii, ________, and Xbox 360 also offer VoIP chat features.

3 E-mails can be cc-ed to multiple ________.

4 Social and political collaboration is also becoming more widespread as both Internet access and ________ grow.

5 Hotspots providing such access include Wi-Fi cafes, where would-be users need to bring their own wireless-enabled devices such as a ________ or PDA.

6 The X.25 packet switching standard was developed in the CCITT (now called ________) around 1976.

7 However, the explosive growth of the Internet has led to ________ which is estimated to enter its final stage in approximately 2011.

8 Remaining problems for VoIP include ________ dialling and reliability.

9 An example of this is the free software movement, which has produced, among other programs, ________, Mozilla Firefox, and OpenOffice.org.

10 In 1957 he became a Vice President at BBN, where he bought the first production PDP-1 computer and conducted the first public demonstration of ________.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the All-China Youth Network Civilization Convention is a short statement promulgated by the authorities in the People's Republic of China, regulating the use of the internet by the Chinese youth.
  • the support website Get Satisfaction was created after its founders realized that on the Internet, when people had issues with companies, other people were often willing to help out.
  • the internet casino GoldenPalace.com won a bid to name the recently discovered type of New World monkey: the GoldenPalace.com Monkey.
  • the 1994 film Walls of Sand was the first contemporary feature film to be webcast on the Internet.
  • the All Sky Automated Survey is a Polish astronomical project based in Chile, controlled remotely from Poland through the Internet, and that it has discovered two comets since 1996 with a tiny budget.
  • the Association of Pizza Delivery Drivers is a union that represents pizza-delivery drivers, and is one of the first unions in the United States to operate entirely over the Internet.
  • the website Techmeme, created by Gabe Rivera, searches for the most popular technology-related news on the Internet and orders them based on an algorithm that determines popularity.
  • the Working Group on Internet Governance is a United Nations body set up to investigate the future governance of the Internet and the role of ICANN.
  • the Indian Railways Fan Club is the Internet's largest website devoted to the Indian Railways and rail transport in the Indian subcontinent.
  • the Barack Obama Muslim rumor has been circulating on the Internet since 2004.
  • most of the land area of Tuek Phos District, Cambodia, is currently listed for lease on the internet as a potential bio-diesel plantation.
  • in the 1990s many users gained Internet access by using Slirp to emulate a TCP/IP connection via a dial-up shell account.
  • F.I.B.S is the earliest backgammon server on the internet and has been actively operating since July 19, 1992.
  • Egg plc is now the world's largest "pure" internet bank, meaning it's only accessible from the internet.
  • Agora was a proof of concept email-based web browser designed for non-graphic terminals and people without full access to the internet.
  • Stephen Fry asked on Twitter for suggestions to name a BBC television series on the impact of the Internet, now called The Virtual Revolution.
  • Michael Homer created Netscape's business plan and developed marketing campaigns for its web browser at a time when few had heard of the Internet.
  • Susan Hadden, an Internet affairs advisor to Al Gore, was killed by bandits while visiting Angkor Wat.
  • founders of the National Fibromyalgia Association first met through the internet.
  • according to sociology professor Lorne L. Dawson, Internet sites like YouTube have in recent years been used to spread religious hate propaganda.
  • Vishvakannada.com was the first Internet magazine in Kannada and also the first website in an Indian language to use dynamic fonts.
  • giant vegetables are entered in competitions around the world, with seeds being traded over the Internet.
  • Internet entrepreneur Pete Ashdown is running against incumbent Orrin Hatch for the 2006 U.S. Senate race in Utah.
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