Lecture 25
What was Teletext?
It was BBC's interactive news service. It was carried over tv broadcast signals.
What was the Declaration of Cyberspace Independence?
It declared the internet free from governments. It said the "global social space we are building is naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us".
What is an example of circumventing media?
Look at the list on lecture 27.
What is net neutrality?
It allows all internet users to get the same speed internet regardless of their internet service provider.
What was Minitel?
It was the world's largest ecommerce market in the 1980s. It used the telephone to run on low resolution screens. It also carried online phone listings.
What did Reno v ACLU decide?
It made the web fully protected under the 1st amendment like print.
Who was Richard Stallman?
He was a leader in the Free Software Movement. He was a leader of hacker culture and MIT programmer.
What is Sarnoff's Law?
Any network's value can be calculated according to the number of people in the audience. Audience of 5 is a value of 5.
What was AT&T's missed opportunity?
The US Department of Defense offered AT&T the opportunity to buy APRA's internet network, but they refused.
What is long tail marketing?
It is selling a large volume of niche items rather than a lot of a few popular items. It is marketing to underserved parts of the market.
What was Napster?
It was a company owned by Shawn Fanning that shared audio files. A federal court found Napster was infringing copyright and it was shut down in 2001.
What is Metcalfe's Law?
Network value is equal to the square of the number of users. 5 users gives a value of 25.
Who was Tim Berners-Lee?
He invented the protocol for the World Wide Web, so information stored on computers can be linked everywhere.
What happened during the Dot Com Burst of 2000?
AOL's market took a steep fall after Microsoft was declared a monopoly, and it was revealed AOL inflated earnings reports to buy Time Warner and CNN.
Who is Julian Assange?
He is the founder of Wikileaks. He released diplomatic cables which contributed to the Arab Spring. He fled to Russia in 2012 after facing charges in the US.
What is Reed's Law?
Who were Ted Nelson and Doug Englebart?
They were the designers of the basic framework of the internet.
What was the 1996 Communication Decency Act?
It was a law Congress passed which strictly regulated web indecency.
What is "organizing without organizations"? And provide an example of it.
It is crowdsourcing. Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, and Wikipedia.
What is Beckstrom's Law?
A network's value is determined by the amount of money saved by a person in the network in a transaction. If a person saves $10, the company is worth $10 dollars to that person.