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Advanced Research Projects Agency Network: Military network that preceded Internet
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advergames: video games sponsored by an advertiser to promote sales
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Amazon.com: Electronic commerce company that upended traditional book retailing
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American Online: once-dominant Internet service provider
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artifical life: games that put players in control of a character in make-believe situations
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avatar: Any Second Life character created by a player. The word is adapted from the Hindu concept of a soul being released from earthly limitations
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behavioral targeting: Using personal information and patterns in activities to match advertisements with potential customers
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blogs: A journal-like web site with continuing narrative, generally personal in nature, on a narrow subject. Short for web log
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browser: Software to navigate the Internet, specifically World Wide Web sites
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Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers: Internet's chief oversight agency
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David Filo, Jerry Lang: Founders of Yahoo
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domain name: An identification label for a web site, each with a suffix line like .com, .gov, .org
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dot-com bust: Economic collapse of most investments in Internet commence in 2000
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e-mail: A system for computer users to exchange messages through a message
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eBay: pioneer online auction site
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Google: dominant search engine
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Google Print Library: Project to put all books in human history online
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iTunes Store: Online digital media for consumer downloads, originally music
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Jeff Bezos: Created Amazon online site, originally for selling books
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Kindle: Amazon e-book to which books and periodicals can be downloaded
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Marc Andreessen: Software wunderkind who designed pioneer browser Netscape
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Metabrain: computers that collect human intelligence to assess and disseminate
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multi-user dungeons: video games with multi-players capabilities
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Netscape: First Internet browser
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passed links: references to web sources shared among computer users
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Phillip Rosedale: Creator of Second Life game; a.k.a. Phillip Linden
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Pierre Omidyar: Creator of eBay online auction site
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search engine: Tool to identify and rank web sites by key terms
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Second Life: video game in which players create roles and interact in virtual world they create
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Sergey Brin, Larry Page: Creators of Google search engine
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simulation games: video games in which players interact with one another in situations that they create
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spam: E-mail message sent indiscriminately to large numbers of recipients
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targeted marketing: Matching advertisers with potential customers with relative precision
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tweets: messages on the Twitter platform
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Twitter: platform for 140-or-fewer-character communications amount computer and cell phone users
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user-generated content: Internet messages that originate with an individual to communicate directly with a mass audience
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walled garden: Early business model for online portals with access limited mostly to proprietary content
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Will Wright: game designer known mostly for SimCity and spin-offs
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Yahoo: A major search engine and Internet services company