Computing and Technology

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Computing and Technology

• Quiz

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• Name two founders of Microsoft.
• Top row Steve Wood (left), Bob Wallace, Jim
  Lane. Middle row Bob O'Rear, Bob Greenberg, Marc
  McDonald, Gordon Letwin. Bottom row Bill Gates,
  Andrea Lewis, Marla Wood, Paul Allen. Pic taken
  on the morning of December 7, 1978

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• Name two founders of Apple.
• On April Fool's Day, 1976, Steve Wozniak and
  Steve Jobs released the Apple I computer and
  started Apple Computers. The Apple I was the
  first with a single circuit board used in a
  computer.

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• What is the global network of millions of
  computers linked by telephone, cable, and
  fiber-optic links that can share information?

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• What is a set of eight binary digits (bits that
  are either 0 or 1) that represent a letter,
  number, or symbol? (01000011)

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• What is the term for a computer program, usually
  produced and used maliciously, that can destroy
  or damage computer information? It is transmitted
  by floppy disk or by downloading an infected file
  from an online source.

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• What is the area inside the computer that allows
  the computer to store and/or act on information
  coded in binary code?

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• What does WWW stand for?

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• Name a search engine.

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• What is 1 1 in binary?

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• What is the name of the language you use to write
  a web page?

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• What is a hot spot in computer jargon?

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• What is the unit used for measuring a computer's
  memory or disk capacity that is equal to
  approximately one billion bytes or 1,024
  megabytes?

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• What is the basic language of computers, made up
  on ones and zeros?

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• What do we call a set of instructions that the
  computer follows?

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• Who is the president and CEO of eBay?
• Meg Whitman

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• Who developed Linux?
• In 1991, Linus Torvalds began to work on the
  Linux kernel while he was attending the
  University of Helsinki.

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• Who started Amazon.com?
• Amazon was founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos It is
  common lore that Bezos wrote its business plan
  while he and his wife drove a 1988 Chevrolet
  Blazer from Fort Worth, Texas to Bellevue,
  Washington.

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• What was the first item sold on eBay?
• The very first item sold on eBay was a broken
  laser pointer for 14.83.

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• The Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikikaisha company was
  founded in Japan in 1934. Today, under the more
  compact name YKK Co., it is known as the
  world-leading manufacturer of which everyday
  product?
• A YKK factory site in Macon, Ga., produces 7
  million zippers a day, in a total of 1,500 styles
  in more than 427 standard colors. It's the
  largest zipper factory in the world.

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• The first coin-operated vending machine dates
  from at least the first century BC. What product
  did the machine dispense?
• The first vending machine is believed to have
  been invented by Hero of Alexandria, a
  first-century inventor. His machine accepted a
  coin and then dispensed a fixed amount of holy
  water.

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• Where was the first automatic teller machine in
  the U.S. installed?
• Citizens and Southern National Bank in Valdosta,
  Ga., installed the countrys first automatic
  teller machine

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• When was the first email sent?
• The first e-mail was sent in 1971. Ray Tomlinson
  of the research firm Bolt, Beranek and Newman
  sent the first e-mail when he was supposed to be
  working on a different project. Tomlinson, who is
  credited with being the one to decide on the "_at_"
  sign for use in e-mail, sent his message over a
  military network called ARPANET. When asked to
  describe the contents of the first email,
  Tomlinson said it was something like
  "QWERTYUIOP"

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• When was the World Wide Web born?
• In 1990, The World Wide Web was born when Tim
  Berners-Lee, a researcher at CERN, the
  high-energy physics laboratory in Geneva,
  developed HyperText Markup Language. HTML, as it
  is commonly known, allowed the Internet to expand
  into the World Wide Web, using specifications he
  developed such as URL (Uniform Resource Locator)
  and HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol).