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title: Computers and the internet — how Mova does on the tests · History
description: Lesson 36 of the history course of Mova's primary school: 8 of 10 tests right, exam 2 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Computers and the internet

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**Tests:** 8 of 10 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 6 of 14 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 36 of the history course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/).

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Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson's questions in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/).

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### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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my brother says the internet and the web are the same thing. are they?

- **1.** No, the internet is the network; the web is pages and links on it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** No, the web came first in 1969 — no support
- **3.** No, the internet is only for phones — no support
- **4.** Yes, they are exactly the same thing with two different names — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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In EU5 your country rules half the world by 1500. What should you remember?

- **1.** History games simplify and sometimes change real history — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** The game is a perfect copy of everything that really happened in 1500 — no support
- **3.** Real history copies the game — no support
- **4.** Games are always wrong about everything — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Why is it surprising that Ada Lovelace wrote a program in the 1840s?

- **1.** She had a smartphone — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** She lived in 2007 — no support
- **3.** The machine was never finished and electronic computers came a century later — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Programs were common then, and every rich family in London had a computer at home — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★ · right ✓ {#t4}

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If Tim Berners-Lee had charged money for every website, what would probably have happened?

- **1.** Far fewer people would have made websites — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Everyone would have used the web a lot more than they do today — no support
- **3.** The internet would go faster — no support
- **4.** Nothing would change — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★ · right ✓ {#t5}

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A video says a famous person said something shocking, but you find no trusted source. What do you do?

- **1.** Treat it as maybe false until you can check it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 14
- **2.** Report it as true to the news — no support
- **3.** Believe it because it is a video — score 5
- **4.** Share it with everyone at once, because important news must spread fast — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 1 with score 14, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 36, line 5: «Games grew from Pong's two bats and a dot in 1972 to Europa Universalis, but history games simplify the past, and online, just like a historian, you must check…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same action «check» (+4); the same thing acted on «sources» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6}

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grandad's first phone was literally a brick??

- **1.** Yes, the first mobile phones in the 1980s were brick-sized — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** No, mobile phones came in 1850 — no support
- **3.** Yes, they were made from a real house brick with buttons stuck on — no support
- **4.** No, phones were always tiny — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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Why did the war make governments want fast computers?

- **1.** To print more money — no support
- **2.** To break enemy codes and do big calculations quickly — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **3.** To send holiday photos to soldiers' families back home — no support
- **4.** To play games — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 36, line 9: «Alan Turing helped break German codes at Bletchley Park in the Second World War and described how computers could work and even think, ideas at the base of com…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «break» (+3); the same thing acted on «german codes» (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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Your phone is millions of times faster than a 1940s computer. What made that possible?

- **1.** Many more light bulbs — no support
- **2.** Better steam engines — no support
- **3.** Building much bigger rooms — no support
- **4.** The microchip — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 36, line 11: «Microchips made computers small and cheap enough for homes, cars and phones, and a phone today is millions of times more powerful than the first computers.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same action «make» (+3); the same doer «microchips» (+3). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9}

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Why might someone say Alan Turing is a father of computer science?

- **1.** His ideas about how computers work are its base — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **2.** He built the very first iPhone in his garden shed — no support
- **3.** He founded Microsoft — no support
- **4.** He invented the web — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 36, line 9: «Alan Turing helped break German codes at Bletchley Park in the Second World War and described how computers could work and even think, ideas at the base of com…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «computers» (+2); the same action «work» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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A friend says Pong had amazing 3D graphics. What is right?

- **1.** It had real actors filmed in colour — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It was simple dots and lines — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** It looked like a modern film — no support
- **4.** It was all in virtual reality goggles — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/t10/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1}

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Identify the individual credited by many with the composition of the first computer program.

- **1.** Alan Mathison Turing — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Ada Lovelace — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Charles Robert Darwin — no support
- **4.** Sir Tim Berners-Lee — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2}

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the distinction between the internet and the World Wide Web?

- **1.** The Web preceded the internet by some twenty years and gave rise to it — no support
- **2.** The internet is the network; the Web is a system of linked pages upon it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8
- **3.** They are identical in every respect — no support
- **4.** The internet is confined to telephones — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 36, line 4: «The internet began in 1969 by linking a few American university computers, and in 1989 Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web of pages and links and gave…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same doer «internet» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3}

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Ascertain the principal consequence of the invention of the microchip.

- **1.** Electricity was rendered unnecessary — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Computers became small and inexpensive enough for domestic use — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Computers came to occupy entire buildings and required many operators — no support
- **4.** The telephone was abolished — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4}

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the terms upon which the World Wide Web was made available.

- **1.** It was made available solely to governments — no support
- **2.** It was made available to the world without charge — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **3.** It was restricted to scientists at CERN — score 4
- **4.** It was sold to a single company for a large sum of money — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 36, line 4: «The internet began in 1969 by linking a few American university computers, and in 1989 Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web of pages and links and gave…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «web» (+4); the same circumstance (+3). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/e4/)

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