Computer History Internet Scavenger Hunt

Computer History Internet Scavenger Hunt

It was an early packet switching and the first network to implement the protocol suite TCP/IP. It’s important because it became one of the technical foundations of the Internet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET

2. Who first coined the term World Wide Web (WWW)?

Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau.

http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/history/inventedweb.html

Tim Berners-Lee

http://www.livinginternet.com/w/wi_browse.htm
4. In what year was the personal computer invented?

In 1975.

http://lowendmac.com/2014/personal-computer-history-the-first-25-years/
5. Who were the inventors of the personal computer?

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer
6. What company did they found?
Apple

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wozniak

Email

In 1942 and it was called the Atanasoff-Berry Computer or ABC.

http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/?category=cmptr
9. Who first coined the term personal computer and when?

Ed Roberts in 1975.

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000984.htm
10. What is QWERTY and who invented it?

QWERTY is the most common modern-day keyboard layout for Latin script. It was invented by Christopher Latham Sholes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY
11. What does WYSIWYG stand for, coined the phrase, and what did they do?

It stands for “What you see is what you get”. The phrase was coined by Flip Wilson. He was an actor.

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/what-you-see-is-what-you-get.html
12. Who invented the computer mouse and what year?

Douglas Engelbart in 1964.

http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/613/the-history-of-the-computer-mouse/
13. Who patented the floppy disk and in what year?

Alan Shugart in 1972.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_floppy_disk
14. What was the size of the first floppy disk?

8 inches across

http://www.howtogeek.com/trivia/what-size-were-the-original-floppy-disks/
15. What were the other 2 sizes of floppy disks?

5 ¼ inches and 3 ½ inches

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk
16. What was the first computer, who invented it, and when?

A mechanical computing machine called “analytical engine” invented by Charles Babbage in 1822.

http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/who-invented-computer-288799
17. What is the origin of the term computer bug?

On September 9, 1945 a Harvard technical team looked at Panel F and found a moth between points in Relay 70 and Grace Hopper wrote a caption in the logbook that said, “First actual case of bug being found.”

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2515435/app-development/moth-in-the-machine--debugging-the-origins-of--bug-.html

18. What is the percentage of homepages written in English?

30%

http://qz.com/96054/english-is-no-longer-the-language-of-the-web/

Domain names are used to identify one or more IP addresses and are used in URLs to identify particular web pages.

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/D/domain_name.html
20. What does Sputnik have to do with the Internet?

After Sputnik’s launch, many Americans began to think more seriously about science and technology and schools added courses on subjects like chemistry, physics, and calculus.

http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/invention-of-the-internet
21. What is a Lisa and when did she come out?

Lisa is a personal computer designed by Apple Computer, Inc. in 1983

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lisa
22. What was IBM’s first computer and what year did it come out?

IBM 5150 in 1981

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2101426/ibm-pc-ago
23. What was the date that the WWW was introduced to the public?

August 6, 1991

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2011/08/06/20-years-ago-today-the-world-wide-web-opened-to-the-public/
24. Who coined the term “information Superhighway”?

Al Gore

It stands for Universal Serial Bus and it’s used to connect a computer to devices

http://etc.usf.edu/techease/win/hardware/what-is-usb/
26. Who first developed Google and when?

Sergey Brin and Larry Page

http://www.biography.com/people/larry-page-12103347
27. What year was the iPod introduced?

2001

MySpace was founded in 2003 by employees of eUniverse.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/29/myspace-history-timeline_n_887059.html
29. Who founded Facebook and in what year?

Mark Zuckerberg along with Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes in 2004.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook
30. What year were the following companies founded?

Hewlett Packard: 1939

Apple: 1976

Microsoft: 1975

IBM: 1911

Dell: 1984