Searching this computer hunt could make you more knowledgeable
about the computer than your teacher. Go for it! Use the links to go to a
site that has the answer.
1. What does DVD
stand for?
2. What is a dingbat?
3. What is a
handshake?
4. What is a home
page?
5. What handles
can you not hold in your hand?
6. What was ENIAC?
7. What contribution did Ada Byron make to computing?
8. What kind of wafers
are used at Intel to make computer chips?
9. What do they call the suit
that cleanroom technicians must wear while making computer
chips?
10. What does modem
stand for anyway? (Search the site)
11. I think the person who coined these computer terms must have been hungry.
Use this link to answer all parts of question 11:
http://Whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,289893,sid9_gci213816,00.html
What is a bit?
How many bits in a byte?
How many nibbles in a byte?
12. The ARPANET 's development began in 1966. It was an experiment
to connect universities to share information. What
do we call this today?
13. In what year was the first
World-Wide Web software created by Tim Berners-Lee? (Hint search in the
timeline only)
14. Project Gutenberg puts on the Internet public domain literature
and information.
What was the first document
posted?
15. When were floppy
disks introduced? (hint they were first called magnetic disks)
16. How many megabytes
of data can a factory made audio CD hold?
17. What do the letters CD-ROM
stand for?
18. Name three
computer peripherals.
19. What does GUI
(pronounced "goo-ey") mean?
20. What is an advantage of the Dvorak
keyboard?
21. What is a
computer virus?
22. How did Marcian
Hoff's invention change computers? Look him up.
23. What mammal,
other than humans, uses a computer?