Question: who is served by dial-up, dsl, adsl, cable modems, or isdns?
Answer: users and small businesses

Question: What type of customers would typically have more demanding requirements? 
Answer: medium-to-large businesses, or other ISPs

Question: what does atm stand for in relation to internet providers? 
Answer: Asynchronous Transfer Mode

Question: what is high-speed dsl used for? 
Answer: customers with more demanding requirements

Question: what is SONET? 
Answer: synchronous optical networking

Question: What is a mailbox provider? 
Answer: an organization that provides services for hosting electronic mail domains with access to storage for mail boxes

Question: What is an organization that provides hosting of electronic mail domains? 
Answer: A mailbox provider

Question: what is the purpose of a mailbox provider? 
Answer: It provides email servers to send, receive, accept, and store email

Question: how does a user store electronic mail?
Answer: A mailbox provider

Question: What is SMTP?
Answer: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

Question: What is IMAP?
Answer: Internet Message Access Protocol

Question: How is access to mail provided? 
Answer: implementing Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and possibly providing access to messages through Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP), the Post Office Protocol, Webmail, or a proprietary protocol.

Question: what are most mailbox providers as well? 
Answer: access providers

Question: who possibly controls their own mail servers? 
Answer: companies, universities, organizations, groups, and individuals

Question: What do internet hosting services provide? 
Answer: email, web-hosting, or online storage services

Question: Who provides a virtual server service?
Answer: Internet hosting services

Question: who provides cloud services?
Answer: Internet hosting services

Question: Who does an ISP pay for internet access?
Answer: upstream ISPs

Question: Why does an ISP need to pay an upstream ISP?
Answer: An upstream ISP usually has a larger network than the contracting ISP

Question: What does an upstream ISP provide for an ISP?
Answer: access to parts of the Internet the contracting ISP by itself has no access to

Question: what usually has a larger network, the ISP of the customer or the upstream ISP?
Answer: upstream ISPs

Question: What is the simplest case of an ISP using an upstream ISP? 
Answer: transmit data to or from areas of the Internet beyond the home network

Question: what do transit ISPs provide? 
Answer: large amounts of bandwidth for connecting hosting ISPs and access ISPs

Question: A mode of interconnection is often cascaded multiple times until reaching what?
Answer: a tier 1 carrier

Question: What is a PoP?
Answer: point of presence

Question: What provides bandwidth for the connecting of hosting ISPs and access ISPs?
Answer: Transit ISPs

Question: What is a VISP?
Answer: virtual ISP

Question: What do VISPs resemble? 
Answer: mobile virtual network operators

Question: What do visps purchase services from? 
Answer: a wholesale ISP

Question: What are free ISPs?
Answer: Internet service providers that provide service free of charge

Question: What do free ISPs display in exchange for service?
Answer: advertisements

Question: What are free ISPs similar to? 
Answer: commercial television

Question: How are freenets run? 
Answer: on a nonprofit basis

Question: What is a WISP? 
Answer: wireless Internet service provider

Question: What technology is part of a WISP?
Answer: commonplace Wi-Fi wireless mesh networking, or proprietary equipment

Question: What are some bands that Wi-Fi can operate over? 
Answer: 900 MHz, 2.4 GHz, 4.9, 5.2, 5.4, 5.7, and 5.8 GHz bands

Question: What is a wireless internet service provider's network based on?
Answer: wireless networking

Question: What is peering? 
Answer: multiple ISPs interconnect at peering points or Internet exchange points

Question: What does peering allow? 
Answer: routing of data between each network, without charging one another for the data transmitted

Question: Why is peering used? 
Answer: data that would otherwise have passed through a third upstream ISP, incurring charges from the upstream ISP

Question: What are IXs? 
Answer: Internet exchange points

Question: Where do multiple ISPs connect? 
Answer: peering points or Internet exchange points

Question: Is a tradeoff between efficiency and cost possible? 
Answer: A tradeoff between cost and efficiency is possible

Question: What sort of route does data follow? 
Answer: the most efficient route

Question: What are ISPs subject to monitoring by in some countries? 
Answer: intelligence agencies

Question: What is the controversial N.S.A. program used in the U.S.?
Answer: PRISM

Question: What does PRISM do? 
Answer: provides for broad monitoring of Internet users traffic

Question: What do ISPs integrate into their network to provide information to intelligence agencies? 
Answer: a wide array of surveillance and packet sniffing equipment

Question: What do DCSnet in the US and SORM in Russia do? 
Answer: allowing monitoring of Internet traffic in real time

Question: Which form of comics entails the use of photographic images?
Answer: fumetti

Question: In addition to onomatopoeia and captions, what can be used to show the dialogue in comics?
Answer: speech balloons

Question: What type of comic has taken off in the 21st century?
Answer: online webcomics

Question: The various sizes as well as how panels are arranged help with what aspect of comics?
Answer: narrative pacing

Question: When did Rodolphe Töpffer create cartoons?
Answer: 1830s

Question: Which superhero appeared in comics in 1938?
Answer: Superman

Question: What is Japanese cartooning known as?
Answer: manga

Question: French comics are also known as what?
Answer: bandes dessinées

Question: When is the term comics considered singular rather than plural?
Answer: when it refers to the medium

Question: The historical aspect of cartooning can be applied to mass reproduction or what?
Answer: recurring characters

Question: Some experts believe comics is a combination of what two things?
Answer: images and text

Question: What are Japanese comics called?
Answer: manga

Question: Who is best known for being the first comics creator in Europe?
Answer: Rodolphe Töpffer

Question: Who is considered to be the first comic creator in America?
Answer: Richard F. Outcault

Question: When did Outcault's The Yellow Kid appear in newspapers?
Answer: 1890s

Question: What style of comics did Japan have a long history with prior to World War II?
Answer: satirical

Question: In France, what did historians find that they consider a precedent for comics?
Answer: Lascaux cave paintings

Question: What Michelangelo work do historians consider to be a precedent for comics?
Answer: The Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel

Question: In Egypt, historians consider what to be a precedent for comics?
Answer: hieroglyphs

Question: In Rome, what do historians consider to be a precedent for comics?
Answer: Trajan's Column

Question: What was the first illustrated humor periodical in Britain during the 19th century?
Answer: The Glasgow Looking Glass

Question: When did The Glasgow Looking Glass begin?
Answer: 1825

Question: In Britain, what was the most liked illustrated humor periodical?
Answer: Punch

Question: Which comic character was the first to appear in a weekly magazine?
Answer: Ally Sloper

Question: When did Ally Sloper first appear?
Answer: 1884

Question: Which outlet did comic supplements find success in?
Answer: New York World

Question: Which strip had a good deal of success as a comic strip?
Answer: Outcault's The Yellow Kid

Question: What comic strip did Bud Fisher have success with?
Answer: Mutt and Jeff

Question: When did Mutt and Jeff appear?
Answer: 1907

Question: When did comic books make an appearance?
Answer: 1930s