The Internet

Part One: Go Get It

For these questions, provide a) the answer, and b) how you found the answer. (A URL is an acceptable answer -- if not a URL, a good explanation is expected.) N

1. How many pieces were used to build the Lego TECHNIC motorcar? How heavy was the car when completed?
   650,000. More than a ton. (http://www.cris.com/~zjohnson/legopage/volume12.html)

2. I used to correspond with a guy named Matt Rhoten who was a pretty good database programmer at Stanford. Where does he live now and who does he work for?

3. Rumor has it that Dom Grillo has friends! (Who would have thought...?) Name five of them. (No cheating, Dom. You have to show how you figured out this informat
   Chris Aylott, Toby Elliott, Tim Culler, Kathi Fisler, Matt Barr (http://www.kentlaw.edu/~dgrillo/friends.html)

4. According to the Jihad Against Barney the Purple Dinosaur, what's the cuteness of the NIST smiley face, measured in milibarneys?
   12.37 millibarneys (http://mail.icgroup.net/~emilewski/humor/barney.txt)

5. According to the Usenet Oracle, what day of the week was the Earth created on? What did the Oracle ask for payment from the supplicant?
   Tuesday. A shrine wherein ritual sacrifices will be performed (http://packrat.aml.arizona.edu/cgi-bin/getnumber.pl?digest=806&number=04)

6. A very, very infamous online magazine was first produced by the fun folks at Metal Shop BBS, November 17, 1985. What was it? Download and print out the first issue.
   Phrack (http://underground.org/publications/phrack/p01/p01-1.html)

7. Seems like all the phreaks are into Prepaid Phone Cards (PPCs) lately. Get me the number for a PPC and the access number I need to use it.

Part Two: Abominable Abbreviations

Unpack/decipher the following abbreviations/acronyms:

1. pine
   Program for Internet News and Email

2. perl (both translations, please)
   Practical Extraction and Report Language

3. gnu
   GNU's Not Unix

4. yacc
   Yet Another C Compiler

5. sighup
   HangUP SIGnal

6. irc
   Internet Relay Chat

7. ftp
   File Transfer Protocol

8. httpd
   Hypertext Transfer Protocol Daemon

9. uucp
   Unix-to-Unix Copy Protocol

10. chown
    Change Owner

11. emacs

12. bash
    Bourne-Again Shell

Part Three: E-mail Addresses

For each of the following people, give the reason they're famous in the net community and their e-mail address.

1. John Perry Barlow
   Founder: EFF

2. Steve Jobs
   Founder: Apple, Next

3. Kevin Kelly
   Executive Editor: Wired

4. Ken Kesey
   Thrown out of Apple party for trying to promote LSD use :)

5. Kai Krause
   Author of Kai's Power Tools. Digital Artist

6. Jaron Lanier
   Virtual Reality Pioneer. Founder of VPL

7. Timothy Leary
   60s drug activist now into virtual reality (now dead)

8. Nicholas Negroponte
   Head: MIT Media Lab. Author of Becoming Digital

9. Howard Rheingold
   Editor: Whole Earth Review. Early member of the WELL

10. R U Sirius
    Co-Founder: Mondo 2000

11. Cliff Stoll
    Author: Silicon Snake Oil

12. Steve Wozniak
    The innovator half of the Apple founders

Part Four: Smiley Faces, Scourge of the Devil

We all know that ;-) means 'wink'. These are a little trickier. For instance, :-' = user is spitting tobacco.

1. 0-)
   smiley cyclops

2. 8 :-)
   User is a wizard

3. (-:
   left-hand smiley

4. :*)
   user is drunk

5. [:]
   robot smiley

6. 8-)
   glasses

7. B:-)
   sunglasses on head

8. :-)-8

9. :-{)
   user has a mustache

10. :-{}
    user wears lipstick

11. {:-)
    smiley with toupee

12. :-[
    vampire smiley

13. :'-(
    user is crying

14. :-@
    screaming smiley

15. :-#
    user wears braces/my lips are sealed

16. -:-(
    real punk rockers don't smile

17. +-:-)
    user is the pope

18. |-I
    user is asleep

19. |-O
    user is snoring

20. |-Q
    user is drooling on the pillow

21. :-Q
    smoker

22. :-?
    smoking a pipe

23. O :-)
    angel

24. C=:-)
    chef

25. @=
    pro-nuclear war

26. *<:-)
    santa claus

27. [:-)
    smiley wearing a walkman

28. <:-I
    user is a dunce

29. @:-)
    Smiley wearing a turban

Part Five: Give the punch lines to the following jokes:

1. How many Pentium designers does it take to change a lightbulb?
   None - it will be fixed in the next version.

2. How many Newton users does it take to change a lightbulb?
   Foux! There to eat lemons, axe gravy soup

3. What's the difference between Microsoft and Jurassic Park?

4. How many Microsoft employees does it take to change a lightbulb?
   It burned out? You must be using a non-standard socket.

5. How many Windows users does it take to change a lightbulb?
   One, but she/he'll swear up and down that it was JUST as easy for him as it would be for a Macintosh user.

Part Six: When were the following comments made?

1. "Computers in the future may wiegh no more than 1.5 tons."
   Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949

2. "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
   Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

3. "I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out
   The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957

4. "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
   Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

Part Seven: You got e-mail from where?

Easy -- we give you the domain name, you give us where the message came from. So if we say .com, you say "An american corporation." If we say .dz, you say "Alg

1. .ae

2. .arpa
   ARPAnet

3. .ch
   Switzerland

4. .cx

5. .de

6. .fm

7. .hr

8. .kh

9. .is

10. .lk

11. .mm

12. .nt

13. .sg
    Singapore

14. .td

15. .um
    United States Minor Outlying Islands

16. .va
    Vatican City State

Part Eight: Essay.

You are the assistant district attorney of hell, assigned to argue for the damnation of Steve Case, president of AOL. Make your case. Be sure to format your ar