Social Science #13

What laid the foundation for personal computing in the 1970s and 1980s?

• Fast and cheap hardware

• Easy-to-use software

• The ARPANET

• Miniaturization of hardware

• Government allocation of resources

What did Richard Stallman resolve to do after not being able to share proprietary software?

• Create a completely free Unix-compatible operating system

• Develop improvements to the Lisp Machine software

• Enlist the help of a lawyer to draft a new software license

• Share the code to GNU publicly

• Restrict the development of Unix-compatible hardware

What does the term 'free' mean in the context of free software?

• Free of charge

• Free as in freedom

• Free from restrictions

• Free to modify and reuse

• Free form maintenance

What did Linus Torvalds use as a starting point for creating the Linux kernel?

• GNU operating system

• Minix operating system

• HyperCard hypertext system

• Mosaic web browser

• Ethernet operating system

What were the two essential enabling technologies of the World Wide Web?

• Hypertext and the Internet

• Hypertext and the GUI

• The Internet and the GUI

• The Internet and the kernel

• The Internet and the Ethernet

What did Tim Berners-Lee create to embed hyperlinks into documents?

• HTML

• URL

• HTTP

• FTP

• PPML

What was the first web browser that could display both text and images simultaneously?

• Mosaic

• HyperCard

• GNU

• Minix

• Lenox

What did Marc Andreesen and Eric Bina create at the University of Illinois?

• Mosaic web browser

• HyperCard hypertext system

• GNU operating system

• Minix operating system

• The World Wide Web

What did Jim Clark propose to Marc Andreesen?

• To form a business to market the Mosaic browser

• To create a new web browser called HyperCard

• To develop improvements to the Lisp Machine software

• To draft a new software license called GPL

• To prevent the development of the Mosaic browser

What was the main purpose of the Mosaic web browser?

• To display web pages with words only

• To provide access to existing Internet services

• To create a hypertext system called Xanadu

• To replace the ARPANET with the Internet

• To access restricted databases