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Computing and Technology

Computing and Technology. Quiz. 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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Computing and Technology

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  1. Computing and Technology Quiz Columbus State University

  2. 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 Columbus State University

  3. 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. Columbus State University

  4. What is the global network of millions of computers linked by telephone, cable, and fiber-optic links that can share information? Columbus State University

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

  6. 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. Columbus State University

  7. What is the area inside the computer that allows the computer to store and/or act on information coded in binary code? Columbus State University

  8. What does WWW stand for? Columbus State University

  9. Name a search engine. Columbus State University

  10. What is 1 + 1 in binary? Columbus State University

  11. What is the name of the language you use to write a web page? Columbus State University

  12. What is a hot spot in computer jargon? Columbus State University

  13. 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? Columbus State University

  14. What is the basic language of computers, made up on ones and zeros? Columbus State University

  15. What do we call a set of instructions that the computer follows? Columbus State University

  16. Who is the president and CEO of eBay? Meg Whitman Columbus State University

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

  18. 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. Columbus State University

  19. What was the first item sold on eBay? The very first item sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer for $14.83. Columbus State University

  20. 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. Columbus State University

  21. 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. Columbus State University

  22. Where was the first automatic teller machine in the U.S. installed? • Citizens and Southern National Bank in Valdosta, Ga., installed the country´s first automatic teller machine Columbus State University

  23. 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 "@" 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"” Columbus State University

  24. 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). Columbus State University

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