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INTRODUCTION

Welcome to the Computers treasure hunt!

Use the Internet resources to answer the questions that follow. When you have finished, answer the Big Question that asks you to combine a lot of what you learned through the treasure hunt into a "big picture."

You must copy the questions in a word processor, (i.e. OpenOffice Write- Espronceda)
Then, you must take out every Internet link.
Last, find the answer and write it down.

QUESTIONS

1. What does DVD mean?

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?

11. What is a bit?, how many bits in a byte? and how many nibbles in a byte? (I think the person who coined these computer terms must have been hungry)

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?