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current name of Giant's ball park
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3 com park
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past name of Giant's ball park
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candlestick ball park
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where/ what /when is the information age
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here, the internet/ righ now
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how fast are things moving on the internet
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1 year = 7 internet years
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what percentage of schools had acess to the internet
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70%
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what has Edwin Chiu done with his life
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an inventor, invented g0-ped and floss laser pointer
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what was the origional name of Graham's ocmpany
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architext
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what is th ecurrent nameof graham's company
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excite
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what were graham and his friends smart enoughh to see
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information technology was a big buisness
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largest single legal creation of wealth on the planet, how much is it worth
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Pc, 40 billion
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what role is the Adult industry playing in the growth of the Internet
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pioneering, sparked adult use
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venture capitalist who funded architext/excite, what did he like about them
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Vinod Koshla, they were good listeners, had good vibes, and were thoughtful
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steve jobs- what is the biggest advantage of the internet
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communication, microsoft doesn't own it
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steve balmer- what drives the internet
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e-mail
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the WELL
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one of hte oldest electronic meeting places, a community
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what is wrong wiht cyber romances
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you can project whatever image you want through the internet
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what is recruiting a CEO called
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adult supervision
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how much were the architext/excite ppl worth
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10 million each
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what was internet revolution
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abolished distance, don't have to go to the office to work
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what did the russians give us
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space race
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what did Eisenhower do?
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created Arpa to battle cold war, computer/space resarch
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what did Kennedy do?
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wanted to put a man on the moon, created NASA
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what did pentagon scientists believe "had the right stuff"
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computer resarch
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what got all the medias attention
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the space race
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what visionary saw the growing potential fro computer technology
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licklider, had no idea how
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what space program was sending men into orbit
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Gemini
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who was funding mainframe computers for research at major universities
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Arpa
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scientific name of the system that allowed more people computer access to a mainframe
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timesharing
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where were teh Internet and the World Wide Web born
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Us Pentagon
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DARPA
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Defence Advanced Research Project Agency
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what did Bob Taylor decide to start at Arpa, what was his origonal got
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to start Arpa net, origonally spent budget for computer research
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how much money did Bob Taylor want to build the arpanet
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one million
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where was the internet invented
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in Bob Taylor's office
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how did the universities involved react to the Arpa net
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not enthusiastic, it was a threat
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what space program succeeded Gemini
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Apollo, wanted to go lunar
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What universities did taylor begin ARpanet with
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Stanford, UCLA, Utah
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digital
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digits of 1's and 0's
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Larry Roberts?
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drew up request for arpanet, main architect
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Len Kleinrock?
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applied math to gambling
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true birthplace fo the Information Age, in the 60's it was the hub of
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New England, advanced computer research
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high tech engineering company that boston/cambridge was known for
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BB+N or BBN
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Dave Walden, Frank Hart, Severo Ornstein
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worked on Arpanet design request, bid
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Apollo 8?
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orbited the moon
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what theory did Len Kleinrock uncover in dissertation
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principals of packet switching and data networking
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packet?
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sendint things in little chunks of info, numbered, and is recieved and sent
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how were telephones used with packetswitching?
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sent packets, a link between hone and computer
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Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn
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invented TCP/IP
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2 monster companies that declined to get involved with building network over telephone lines
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IBM and AT&T
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talking on phone lines vs. computer on phone line
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computers were quick and efficient
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packets like postcards?
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to and from addresses, different order, lost, many different paths
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IMP?
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interface message processor
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what is an IMP called today
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a router
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what does an imp/ router do
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packet switching
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how many months did it take for Arpa net to finish
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9 months
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what happened 7 weeks before arpanet came alive
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neil armstrong walked on the moon
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What was the first message on teh internet
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log in
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what catalog did stewart brand found
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whole earth catalog
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why are computeres better than drugs
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drugs don't get any better, and computers make better, non illegal money
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computers and power to the people?
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if you give ppl tools, they can make a better society
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what technology was used for networking in Hawaii
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Radio
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why did Norm Abramson move to Hawaii
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surfing
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what was the first network to transmit data into a comuputer using radio waves
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aloha net
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by 1970 packet switching networks wre running where?
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phone lines, radio, satellite
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what was the problem in teh 70's with other programs besides Arpanet, why couldn't programs be sent between the networks
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each network had different rules, an ocommon language
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frank heart, highway system with no cars?
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internet was very underused
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TCP/IP
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transmission controll protocal/ internet protocol
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Protocol?
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rules of how computers talk to each other
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what tow guys invented TCP/IP
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bob kahn and vin cerr
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what was teh killer app of the IBM pc
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spreadsheet
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killer app of Mac
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desktop publishing
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killer app of the internet
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e-mail
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where and hwen was e-mail invented
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BB+N/BBN
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who invented e-mail
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Ray Tomlinson
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how wealthy are the inventors of the Internet today
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nobody made anything
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