Explain why standards are so important in information technology. ...

[sammy]

Explain why standards are so important in information technology. What standards have been important for the growth of Internet technologies?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Which of the following is a characteristic of online communications?
 
  A) fewer nonverbal cues to clarify meaning
  B) a more well-defined audience than in-person interactions
  C) less anonymity than in-person interactions
  D) greater media richness than in-person interactions

[Juro]

Answer to Question 1

Standards are important because they result in different manufacturers creating products that can be used either with each other or to communicate with each other. For example, without standards, each light-bulb manufacturer would have to also create specific light-bulb sockets for use with their light bulbs. In the same way, computers and computer technology have been enabled through standards. Standards have allowed many different manufacturers to contribute to the same, standardized definitions of a technological application. For example, the ASCII data standards made it possible for computer machines from different manufacturers to exchange data, and standardized software languages have enabled programmers to write programs that can be used on different machines.
The standards that have been important for the growth of the Internet include TCP/IP, as a networking standard, and WWW standards for displaying information as Web pages, including HTML.

Answer to Question 2

A

[sammy]

Wow, this really help

[amandanbreshears]

Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it