The document provides information and questions for a CIS 0835 midterm exam, including: - There will be 10 questions from the provided list and 5 additional questions from the instructor for a total of 30 points. - An additional practical exercise worth 20 points will involve creating a blog post during the exam that embeds a YouTube video, includes a Creative Commons image, and links to 3 related blogs. - The total midterm exam score will be 50 points.

1. CIS 0835 Midterm Guide Fall 2011 Prof. Lockman

2. From the following list of questions, 10 questions will appear on the midterm. Another 5 questions from the instructor will be included. Each will be worth two points for a total of 30 points. There will also be a practical exercise worth 20 points as part of the mid-term exam. Details will appear at the end of this slideshow. The total score for the midterm exam will be 50 points.

3. What was Napster and when was it launched? Where did he come up with the name Project Xanadu? The first real network to run on packet switching technology was a. Arpanet b. WWW c. Usenet d. TU Portal What was the very first webpage about? What is the first webmail service launched in 1996.

4. In which year was essay titled As We May Think released in The Atlantic Monthly? A:1943 B:1945 C:1947 D:1950 What is the popular file format to share songs and album via internet? a) .doc b) .aac c) .mp3 d) .wmv When was wikipedia launched? a) 1993 b) 2000 c) 2008 d) 2001 Facebook was launched in the year 2004. What was its original name, and who was it’s original target?

5. What is the Twitter Fail Whale? What is the meaning of DERP? What does “www” stand for? Besides the mouse, what other devices did Engelbert consider for interfacing with computers? Tim-Berners Lee created the WWW. True or false?

6. Does flickr allow you to upload photos from your mobile phone? Name three things Engelbart invented. Who coined terms such as “hypertext” and “hypermedia”? When was the first computer mouse prototype released? Mentally compare and contrast Facebook and Twitter & give one example of a difference.

7. If the hash tag number is 665, how would you tag this to Twitter? When was the first year that brought the first unsolicited commercial email message(later known as spam)? You can message someone on twitter by putting #/@/RT/DM before username. Who did create the idea of memex? 1. Doug Engelbart 2. Vanever Bush 3.Ted Nelson 4. Scott Lockman Which is the first modern emoticon in 1982? 1. (^O^) 2. x-) 3. ;-( 4. :-)

8. In 1971 Ray Tomlinson first developed what? Google went live in? Wikipedia launched in which year? Who had the first video conference? What does NLS mean?

9. Who allegedly claimed to have invented the Internet but obviously didn’t? Who designed the first automatic computing engine? Which words make up the name ‘memex’? a. memory, text b. memory, index c. memory, flexible d. memory, hypertex Ted Nelson’s first attempt (Xanadu project) on implementation began and was successfully released to the world in 1960. True or False

10. Anyone can suggest your idea for daily assignments on dailyshoot. True or False Q: What was “twitter” originally going to be called? a) twitty b) twittr c) twitter d) twiter What is the top of the memex? A. transparent platen B. white paper C. black digital screen D. none of the above

11. The practical part of the exam will involve asking you to create a blog post in class. You will need to embed a YouTube video, include a Creative Commons licensed image from Flickr (with attribution), and link to at least three other blogs which are related to the topic. You should also write two or three well formatted paragraphs in the blog post. The topic you blog about will be provided during the exam. Basically, I will give you a list of several words and you are to choose one of them for your blog post. I’m more interested in seeing that you can accomplish the tasks above in a nicely formed blog post. The writing in your two or three paragraphs will be of secondary importance though you should try to communicate in a natural manner and try to make sense. This practical activity will be worth 20 points. Combined with the 15 questions chosen from above, the total score for the midterm will be 50 points.