Computer Scavenger Hunt

1. What does DVD stand for? How may DVD formats are available?

Digital Versatile Disc. There are 6 DVD formats.

2. What is a dingbat?

 Special characters like stars, hands arrows, and geometric shapes you can use to decorate a document. A collection of dingbats id found in popular font called Wingdings. 

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9. What do they the suit that cleanroom technicians must wear while making computer chips?

10. What does modem mean anyway?

A modem is a device or program that enables a computer to transmit data over, for example, telephone of cable lines.

11. I think the person who coined these computers terms must have been hungry?

What is a bit? 

A bit is the smallest unit  of data in a computer.

How many bits are in a byte?

A bit has a single binary value, either 0 or 1

  How many nibbles are in a byte?

Half a byte (four bits) is called a nibble.

12. The ARPANET'S development began in 1966. It was an experiment to connect university so they could share information. What do we call this today?

We call this the internet and 304 million people have this today.

13. In what year was the first World- Wide Web software created by Tim Berners- Lee?

Tim Berner- Lee developer. First Web is nxoc01.cern.ch, launched in Nov. 1990 and later renamed ifo.cern.ch. 

14. Project Gutenberg puts on the Internet public domain literature and information. What was the first document posted?

 A friendly dissuasion from this yeilding the first posting of a document in electronic text, and Project Gutenberg was born as Michael stated that he had "earned" the $100,000,000 because a copy of the Declaration of  independence would eventually be an electronic fixture in the computer libraries of 100,000,000 of the computer users of the future.

15. When were floppy disk introduced?

 In 1970 the eight inch floppy disk frive was introduced by IBM.

16. How many megabytes of data can a factory made audio CD hold?

It can hold up to 650 megabytes.

17. Douglas Engelbart was a computer visionary of the 1960's. What did he invent that you find handy?

The computer mouse because that makes it easy to click on things.

18. What do the letters CD- ROM stand for?

Compact Disc- Read Only Memory

19. Name three computer peripherals.

Any external device that plugs into your computer, such as a printer, modem, scanner, or tape drive.

20. What does GUI (pro