Scavenger Hunt?

1. What does DVD mean? Digital versatile disc.

How many DVD formats are available? There are 6 DVD formats available. They are DVD Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RAM, DVD-RW, and DVD AUDIO.

2. What is a dingbat? A dingbat is special characters like stars, hands, arrows, and geometric shapes you can use to decorate a document. A collection of dingbats is found in a popular font called Wingdings.

3. What is a handshake? A handshake is two modems perform a handshake each time they meet, just as two people shake hands to greet each other. If the modem speaker is on, you can actually hear the handshake — it’s that annoying series of squeals and signals. The handshake helps the modems determine how they will exchange information.

4. What is a home page? A home page is an introductory screen on the World Wide Web, used to welcome visitors. A home page can include special underlined text or graphics you click on to jump to related information on other pages on the Web. Many individuals, businesses, and organizations now have home pages on the World Wide Web. See also WORLD WIDE WEB.

5. What handles you can't hold in your hand? Little squares at the edges and corners of a selected graphic on your screen. You can move a handle with your mouse pointer to re size or reshape the graphic.

6. What was ENIAC? A bank of blinking lights indicate the mysterious processes going on within: That classic symbol of a computer has lasted long after computers evolved into friendly desktop tools. This was not a dream of science fiction, but a representation of ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator Analyzer and Computer), the gigantic machine credited with starting the modern computer age.

7. What contributions did Ada Bryon make to computering? Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace, was one of the most picturesque characters in computer history. When inspired Ada could be very focused and a mathematical taskmaster. Ada suggested to Babbage writing a plan for how the engine might calculate Bernoulli numbers. This plan, is now regarded as the first "computer program." A software language developed by the U.S. Department of Defense was named "Ada" in her honor in 1979.

8. What kind of wafers are used at Intel to make computer chips?

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

10. What does modem stand for anyway?The word modem stand for modulator- demodulator.

A modem's purpose is to convert digital information to analog signals(modulation), and to convert analog

signals back into useful information( demodulation).

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 in a computer.

How many bits are in a byte? 8 bits are in a byte.

How many nibbles are in a byte? 4 nibbles in a bit.

12. The ARPANET's development began in 1966.It was an experiment to connect univerities so they can share infomation. What do we call this today? The ARANET. It was ARA.

13. In What year was the first World-Wide Web software created by Tim Berner-Lee? The year of 1991.

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