1. What does DVD stand for?
(commonly known as "Digital Versatile Disc" or "Digital Video Disc")
2. What is a dingbat?
A dingbat is an ornament or spacer used in typesetting, sometimes more formally known as a "printer's ornament".
3. What is a handshake?
A handshake is a short ritual in which two people grasp their right or left hands, often accompanied by a brief shake of the grasped hands.
4. What is a home page?
The home page is the URL or local file that is automatically loaded when a web browser starts and when the browser's "home" button is pressed.
5. What handles can you not hold in your hand?
you can hold door handles.
6. What was ENIAC?
ENIAC, short for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer,[1] was the first large-scale, electronic, digital computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems,
7. What contribution did Ada Byron make to computing?
Ada Byron, is mainly known for having written a description of Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine.
8. What kind of wafers are used at Intel to make computer chips?
Hybrid silicon laser are ised in intel.
9. What do they call the suit that cleanroom technicians must wear while making computerchips?
bunny suit, is an overall garment worn in a clean room.
10. What does modem stand for anyway? (Search the site)
is a device that modulates an analog carrier signal to encode digital information, and also demodulates such a carrier signal to decode the transmitted information.
11. I think the person who coined these computer terms must have been hungry.
What is a bit?
A bit (short for binary digit) is the smallest unit of data in a computer.
How many bits in a byte?
ther are 1,000 bits in a byte.
How many nibbles 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 universities to share information. What do we call this today?
we call this internet or e-mail.
13. In what year was the first World-Wide Web software created by Tim Berners-Lee? (Hint search in the timeline only)
i dont know...???????????????
14. Project Gutenberg puts on the Internet public domain literature and information.What was the first document posted?
no it wasent.
15. When were floppy disks introduced? (hint they were first called magnetic disks)
in the bigining of computers.
16. How many megabytes of data can a factory made audio CD hold?
dipends on the size of the disc.
17. What do the letters CD-ROM stand for?
CD-ROM (an abbreviation of "Compact Disc read-only memory") is a Compact Disc that contains data accessible by a computer.
18. Name three computer peripherals.
1.i
2.downt
3.know
19. What does GUI (pronounced "goo-ey") mean?
A graphical user interface (GUI, pronounced gooey) is a type of user interface which allows people to interact with a computer and computer-controlled devices which employ graphical icons, visual indicators or special graphical elements called "widgets", along with text labels or text navigation to represent the information and actions available to a user.
20. What is an advantage of the Dvorak keyboard?
It has also been called the Simplified Keyboard or American Simplified Keyboard, but is commonly known as the Dvorak keyboard or Dvorak layout.
21. What is a computer virus?
A computer virus is a computer program that can copy itself and infect a computer without permission or knowledge of the user.
22. How did Marcian Hoff's invention change computers? Look him up.23. What mammal, other than humans, uses a computer?
The history of computing hardware starting in the 1960s begins with the development of the integrated circuit (IC), which formed the basis of the first computer kits and home computers in the 1970s, notable examples being the MITS Altair, Apple II and Commodore PET; and which eventually powered personal and business computers such as the IBM PC and Apple Macintosh in the 1980s.
(commonly known as "Digital Versatile Disc" or "Digital Video Disc")
2. What is a dingbat?
A dingbat is an ornament or spacer used in typesetting, sometimes more formally known as a "printer's ornament".
3. What is a handshake?
A handshake is a short ritual in which two people grasp their right or left hands, often accompanied by a brief shake of the grasped hands.
4. What is a home page?
The home page is the URL or local file that is automatically loaded when a web browser starts and when the browser's "home" button is pressed.
5. What handles can you not hold in your hand?
you can hold door handles.
6. What was ENIAC?
ENIAC, short for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer,[1] was the first large-scale, electronic, digital computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems,
7. What contribution did Ada Byron make to computing?
Ada Byron, is mainly known for having written a description of Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine.
8. What kind of wafers are used at Intel to make computer chips?
Hybrid silicon laser are ised in intel.
9. What do they call the suit that cleanroom technicians must wear while making computerchips?
bunny suit, is an overall garment worn in a clean room.
10. What does modem stand for anyway? (Search the site)
is a device that modulates an analog carrier signal to encode digital information, and also demodulates such a carrier signal to decode the transmitted information.
11. I think the person who coined these computer terms must have been hungry.
What is a bit?
A bit (short for binary digit) is the smallest unit of data in a computer.
How many bits in a byte?
ther are 1,000 bits in a byte.
How many nibbles 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 universities to share information. What do we call this today?
we call this internet or e-mail.
13. In what year was the first World-Wide Web software created by Tim Berners-Lee? (Hint search in the timeline only)
i dont know...???????????????
14. Project Gutenberg puts on the Internet public domain literature and information.What was the first document posted?
no it wasent.
15. When were floppy disks introduced? (hint they were first called magnetic disks)
in the bigining of computers.
16. How many megabytes of data can a factory made audio CD hold?
dipends on the size of the disc.
17. What do the letters CD-ROM stand for?
CD-ROM (an abbreviation of "Compact Disc read-only memory") is a Compact Disc that contains data accessible by a computer.
18. Name three computer peripherals.
1.i
2.downt
3.know
19. What does GUI (pronounced "goo-ey") mean?
A graphical user interface (GUI, pronounced gooey) is a type of user interface which allows people to interact with a computer and computer-controlled devices which employ graphical icons, visual indicators or special graphical elements called "widgets", along with text labels or text navigation to represent the information and actions available to a user.
20. What is an advantage of the Dvorak keyboard?
It has also been called the Simplified Keyboard or American Simplified Keyboard, but is commonly known as the Dvorak keyboard or Dvorak layout.
21. What is a computer virus?
A computer virus is a computer program that can copy itself and infect a computer without permission or knowledge of the user.
22. How did Marcian Hoff's invention change computers? Look him up.23. What mammal, other than humans, uses a computer?
The history of computing hardware starting in the 1960s begins with the development of the integrated circuit (IC), which formed the basis of the first computer kits and home computers in the 1970s, notable examples being the MITS Altair, Apple II and Commodore PET; and which eventually powered personal and business computers such as the IBM PC and Apple Macintosh in the 1980s.
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