Computer Scavenger Hunt
Searching this computer hunt could make you more knowledgeable about the computer than your teacher. Go for it!
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1.
What does DVD stand for?How many
DVD formats are available? ____________________________________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.
What is a
bit? ? ___________________________________________How many nibbles are in a byte?
_________________________________________12. The ARPANET 's development began in 1966. It was an experiment to connect universities so they could
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: Use the Find command to making searching this page easier. Go Edit ...Find. Enter a keyword for what you are looking for (a name, or the word "web" for example). Click Find. To repeat the process go Edit ... Find again.)14. Project Gutenberg puts on the Internet public domain literature and information.
What was the
first document posted?15. When were
floppy disks introduced? _______________________________________________________16. How many
megabytes of data can a factory made audio CD hold?_________________________________
17. Douglas Engelbart was a computer visionary of the 1960's.
What did he invent that you find handy?18. What do the letters
CD-ROM stand for?19. Name
three computer peripherals.20. What does
GUI (pronounced "goo-ey") mean?21 What is an advantage of the
Dvorak keyboard?22.
What is a computer virus?23. How did
Marcian Hoff's invention change computers? Look him up.24. Apple Computer's G4 is a supercomputer because its operations can be measured in gigaflops.
What is a gigaflop?25. What
mammal, other than humans, uses a computer?__________________________________________________________________
26. Write your school's home page URL (web address)
"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves." ~ Thomas A. Edison
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