| A | B |
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| Telegraph | Invented by Samuel Morse |
| Morse Code | A series of dots and dashes that represent letters of the alphabet. |
| Telephone | Alexander Graham Bell |
| Date telegraph was invented | 1844 |
| Date telephone was invented | 1876 |
| ARPANET | A network of medium-to-large-scale computers created to enable the U.S. Dept. of Defense and research universities to exchange information quickly. (State what the letters stand for.) |
| Date of ARPANET | 1950s and 60s |
| NSFNET | Internet backbone that created an open network that allowed researchers to access five supercomputers. (State what the letters stand for.) |
| Date of NSFNET | 1986-1995 |
| The High-Performance Computing and Communication Act was created and introduced by this person. | Al Gore |
| 1991 | Date of Gore Bill. |
| The High-Performance Computing and Communication Act | National Information Infrastructure linking government agencies and universities with a faster network using fiber optics. |
| Information Superhighway | Another name for the Internet |
| Internet is a network made up of this. | Hardware--computers, equipment, tools, etc. |
| World Wide Web is made up of this. | Software--programs that visually display information. |
| The first message using the telegraph. | "What God hath wrought!" |
| The first conversation using the telephone. | "Mr. Watson, come here, I want you." |
| Give credit for resources used in this slide. | References |
| Cyberspeak or Cyberese | New Internet vocabulary |
| Cybernetics | Science that compares the function of the brain with the functions of the computer. |
| Party line | Where many people shared the same telephone line. |
| List the order from the earliest to latest that occurred. | Telegraph, telephone, ARPANET, NSFNET, Gore Bill |
| WWW | World Wide Web |
