NAME: TUNAC, AVVY CHARLOTTE

LEVEL/SEC: BSN 1B

INTERNET SCAVENGER HUNT

Directions: Complete the questions below by searching on the Internet. Use this document
to type your answers below the question. Make sure you are only using credible/good sites.
Under your answers, copy and paste the website URL/address where you found the answer
at. When you are done, save your work to PDF File and Submit it on MVLE.

1. What is ARPANET and why is it important?

 Short for Advanced Research Projects Agency
Network, ARPANET or ARPAnet began development in 1966 by the United
States ARPA. ARPANET was a Wide Area Network linking many Universities and
research centers, was first to use packet switching, and was the beginning of
what we consider the Internet today. ARPANET was created to make it easier for
people to access computers, improve computer equipment, and to have a more
effective communication method for the military.
 Computer Hope (June 2017). Website:
https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/a/arpanet.htm

2. Who first coined the term World Wide Web (WWW)?

 Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau.
 Webfoundation. Website: https://webfoundation.org/about/vision/history-of-
the-web/

3. Who wrote the first Internet program?

 In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, an Internet-based
hypermedia initiative for global information sharing while at CERN, the European
Particle Physics Laboratory. He wrote the first web client and server in 1990. His
specifications of URIs, HTTP and HTML were refined as web technology spread.
 Internet Society (2021). Website: https://internethalloffame.org/inductees/tim-
berners-lee

4. In what year was the personal computer invented?

 In 1975
 Daniel Knight (April 2014). Low End Marc. Website:
https://lowendmac.com/2014/personal-computer-history-the-first-25-years

5. Who were the inventors of the personal computer?

 Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
 Daniel Knight (April 2014). Low End Marc. Website:
https://lowendmac.com/2014/personal-computer-history-the-first-25-years

6. What company did they found?

 Apple company
 Daniel Knight (April 2014). Low End Marc. Website:
https://lowendmac.com/2014/personal-computer-history-the-first-25-years
7. What came first, Email or the World Wide Web?
 Email is much older than ARPANet or the Internet. It was never invented; it
evolved from very simple beginnings. Early email was just a small advance on
what we know these days as a file directory - it just put a message in another
user's directory in a spot where they could see it when they logged in.
 IAN PETER. Net history. Website:
http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/email.html

8. What year was the first all-electronic computer introduced and what was it called?
 In 1942 and it was called the Atanasoff - Berry Computer or ABC.
 CHM Website: https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/computers

9. Who first coined the term personal computer and when?

 Ed Roberts in 1975.
 Computer Hope (June 2020). Website:
https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000984.htm

10. What is QWERTY and who invented it?

 QWERTY is the most common modern-day keyboard layout for Latin script. The
name comes from the order of the first six keys on the top left letter row of the
keyboard. It was invented by Christopher Latham Sholes.
 Wikipedia. Website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY

11. What does WYSIWYG stand for, coined the phrase, and what did they do?
 It stands for “What you see is what you get”. The phrase was coined by Flip
Wilson. He was an actor.
 Computer Hope (November 2019). Website:
https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/w/wysiwyg.htm

12. Who invented the computer mouse and what year?

 Douglas Engelbart invented mouse in 1964.
 SRI International. Website: https://www.sri.com/hoi/computer-mouse-and-
interactive-computing

13. Who patented the floppy disk and in what year?

 Alan Shugart in 1972.
 Wikipedia. Website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_floppy_disk

14. What was the size of the first floppy disk?

 8 inches
 IBM. Website:
https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/floppy/breakthroughs

15. What were the other 2 sizes of floppy disks?

 5 ¼ inches and 3 ½ inches
  Wikipedia. Website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk

16. What was the first computer, who invented it, and when?
 In 1822, Charles Babbage conceptualized and began developing the Difference
Engine, which is considered the first automatic computing machine.
 Computer Hope (May 2019). Website:
https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000984.htm

17. What is the origin of the term computer bug?

 The term "bug" was used in an account by computer pioneer Grace Hopper, who
publicized the cause of a malfunction in an early electromechanical computer. ...
Operators traced an error in the Mark II to a moth trapped in a relay, coining
the term bug. This bug was carefully removed and taped to the log book.
 Wikipedia. Website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug

18. What is the percentage of homepages written in English?

 25.9%
 Statista (June 2020). Website:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/262946/share-of-the-most-common-
languages-on-the-internet/

19. What is a domain name?

 Domain name is the address of your website that people type in the browser URL
bar to visit your website.
 Wpbeginner (November, 2020). Website:
https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/beginners-guide-what-is-a-
domain-name-and-how-do-domains-work/

20. What does Sputnik have to do with the Internet?

 After Sputnik’s launch, many Americans began to think more seriously about
science and technology and schools added courses on subjects like chemistry,
physics, and calculus.
 History (July 2010). Website:
http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/invention-of-the-internet

21. What is a Lisa and when did she come out?

 Lisa is one of the first personal computer systems with a graphical user interface
(GUI) to be sold commercially. The Lisa was first introduced on January 19, 1983.
 Wikipedia. Website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lisa

22. What was IBM’s first computer and what year did it come out?
 IBM 5150 in 1981
 CHM. Website: https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1981

23. What was the date that the WWW was introduced to the public?
 August 6, 1991
  History (March 2020). Website: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-
history/world-wide-web-launches-in-public

24. Who coined the term “information Superhighway”?

 Al Gore
 Papertrell. Website: https://www.papertrell.com/apps/preview/The-Handy-
Science-Answer-Book/Handy

25. What does USB stand for and what is it used for?
 Universal Serial Bus (USB) is an industry standard that establishes specifications
for cables and connectors and protocols for connection, communication and
power supply (interfacing) between computers, peripherals and other
computers.
 Wikipedia. Website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB

26. Who first developed Google and when?

 Google was founded in September 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they
were Ph.D. students at Stanford University in California.
 Wikipedia. Website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google

27. What year was the iPod introduced?

 2001
 Britannica (May 2019). Website: https://www.britannica.com/technology/iPod

28. Who founded MySpace and in what year?

 Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe, employees of the Internet marketing
company eUniverse (later Intermix Media), created Myspace in 2003.
 Britannica (February 2021). Website:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Myspacecom

29. Who founded Facebook and in what year?

 Mark Zuckerberg along with Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin
Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes in 2004.
 Britannica (February 2021). Website:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Facebook

30. What year were the following companies founded?

Hewlett Packard – 1939 (Wikipedia)
Apple – 1976 (Wikipedia)
Microsoft – 1975 (Wikipedia)
IBM – 1911 (Wikipedia)
Dell – 1984 (Wikipedia)