INTERNET SCAVENGER HUNT

Name: Kristine Joy J. Bonoan Date: October 18, 2021

Course and Section: BSTM 2-A Professor: Renzie Aguada

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

Ans: ARPANET means, Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. It was the first wide-area
packet-switched network with distributed control and one of the first networks to implement the
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol suite. Both technologies became the technical
foundation of the Internet. ARPANET was one of the first general-purpose computer networks.
United States were linked by ARPANET (see DARPA), a precursor to the Internet. The structure
of ARPANET allowed users to connect their computers or terminals to a central mainframe
computer and interact in what was close to real time.
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET
https://www.britannica.com/topic/ARPANET

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

Ans: English scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. He wrote the first
web browser in 1990 while employed at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland. The browser was
released outside CERN to other research institutions starting in January 1991, and then to the
general public in August 1991. The Web began to enter everyday use in 1993–4, when websites
for general use started to become available. The World Wide Web has been central to the
development of the Information Age, and is the primary tool billions of people use to interact on
the Internet.
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web#External_links

3. Who wrote the first Internet program?

Ans: The first web browser, called World Wide Web, was created in 1990 by Sir Tim Berners-
Lee. He then recruited Nicola Pellow to write the Line Mode Browser, which displayed web pages
on dumb terminals; it was released in 1991.
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_browser
4. In what year was the personal computer invented?
Ans: A small firm named MITS made the first personal computer, the Altair. This computer, which
used Intel Corporation's 8080 microprocessor, was developed in 1974. Though the Altair was
popular among computer hobbyists, its commercial appeal was limited.
Link: https://www.britannica.com/technology/personal-computer

5. Who were the inventors of the personal computer?

Ans: Bill Gates and Paul Allen licensed their BASIC programming language interpreter to MITS
as the main language for the Altair. MITS co-founder Ed Roberts invented the Altair 8800 —
which sold for $297, or $395 with a case — and coined the term “personal computer”.
Link: https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/computers/

6. What company did they found?

Ans: A small firm named MITS made the first personal computer, the Altair. This computer, which
used Intel Corporation's 8080 microprocessor, was developed in 1974.
Link: https://www.britannica.com/technology/personal-computer

7. What came first, Email or the World Wide Web?

Ans: 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.
Link:
http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/email.html#:~:text=Email%20is%
20much%20older%20than,it%20when%20they%20logged%20in.

8. What year was the first all-electronic computer introduced and what was it called?
Ans: Started in 1943, the ENIAC computing system was built by John Mauchly and J. Presper
Eckert at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering of the University of Pennsylvania. Because
of its electronic, as opposed to electromechanical, technology, it is over 1,000 times faster than
any previous computer.
Link:
https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/computers/#:~:text=Started%20in%201943%2C%20t
he%20ENIAC,faster%20than%20any%20previous%20computer.

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

Ans: In 1975, Ed Roberts coined the term "personal computer" when he introduced the Altair
8800. Although the first personal computer is considered by many to be the KENBAK-1, which
was first introduced for $750 in 1971.
Link:
https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/courses/compsci111s2c/lectures/andre/computerhope_com_issues
_ch000984.pdf

10. What is QWERTY and who invented it?

Ans: The QWERTY layout was devised and created in the early 1870s by Christopher Latham
Sholes, a newspaper editor and printer who lived in Kenosha, Wisconsin. In October 1867, Sholes
filed a patent application for his early writing machine he developed with the assistance of his
friends Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soulé.
Link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY#:~:text=The%20QWERTY%20layout%20was%20devi
sed,Glidden%20and%20Samuel%20W.%20Soul%C3%A9.

11. What does WYSIWYG stand for, coined the phrase, and what did they do?
Ans: It stands for “What you see is what you get”. It was a catchphrase popularized by Flip
Wilson's drag persona Geraldine, first appearing in September 1969, then regularly in the early
1970s on The Flip Wilson Show.
Link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG#:~:text=harder%20to%20achieve.,Etymology,on%20
The%20Flip%20Wilson%20Show.

12. Who invented the computer mouse and what year?

Ans: Development of the mouse began in the early 1960s by SRI's Douglas Engelbart, while he
was exploring the interactions between humans and computers. Bill English, then the chief
engineer at SRI, built the first computer mouse prototype in 1964. Designs with multiple buttons
soon followed.
Link:
https://www.sri.com/hoi/computer-mouse-and-interactive-
computing/#:~:text=Development%20of%20the%20mouse%20began,with%20multiple%20butt
ons%20soon%20followed.

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

Ans: The Floppy Disk Patent #3,668,658 was issued on June 6, 1972 with named inventors Ralph
Flores and Herbert E. Thompson. The Floppy Disk Drive Patent #3,678,481 was issued July 18,
1972 with named inventors Warren L. Dalziel, Jay.
Link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_floppy_disk#:~:text=The%20Floppy%20Disk%20
Patent%20%233%2C668%2C658,Dalziel%2C%20Jay.

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

Ans: The first 8-inch floppy disk had a storage capacity of about 80 kilobytes. By 1986, IBM
introduced the 3-1/2-inch floppy disk with 1.44 megabytes of storage space. This may seem like
very little now, but at the time it was hard to imagine needing more space than that.
Link:
https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/floppy/breakthroughs/#:~:text=The%20fir
st%208%2Dinch%20floppy,needing%20more%20space%20than%20that.

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

Ans: Floppy disks are most commonly sold in the 5¼- and 8-inch sizes.
Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/floppy-
disk#:~:text=Floppy%20disks%20are%20most%20commonly,%2D%20and%208%2Dinch%20s
izes.

16. What was the first computer, who invented it, and when?
Ans: The Z1, originally created by Germany's Konrad Zuse in his parents' living room in 1936 to
1938 and is considered to be the first electro-mechanical binary programmable (modern) computer
and really the first functional computer.
Link:
https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/courses/compsci111s2c/lectures/andre/computerhope_com_issues
_ch000984.pdf

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

Ans: 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.
Link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug#:~:text=The%20term%20%22bug%22%20was%20
used,in%20an%20early%20electromechanical%20computer.&text=Operators%20traced%20an
%20error%20in,taped%20to%20the%20log%20book.

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

Ans: The site's “English Facts and Figures” page asserts that “80% of home pages on the Web are
in English, while the next greatest, German, has only 4.5% and Japanese 3.1%.” The sources
behind this assertion are unclear, but it's consistent with early research on linguistic diversity
online.
Link: https://qz.com/96054/english-is-no-longer-the-language-of-the-
web/#:~:text=The%20site's%20%E2%80%9CEnglish%20Facts%20and,research%20on%20ling
uistic%20diversity%20online.
19. What is a domain name?
Ans: A domain name is an identification string that defines a realm of administrative autonomy,
authority or control within the Internet. Domain names are used in various networking contexts
and for application-specific naming and addressing purposes.
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name

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

Ans: On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the world's first manmade satellite into orbit.
The satellite, known as Sputnik, did not do much: It relayed blips and bleeps from its radio
transmitters as it circled the Earth. Today, almost one-third of the world's 6.8 billion people use
the internet regularly.
Link: https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/invention-of-the-internet

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

Ans: The Lisa was first introduced on January 19, 1983. It is one of the first personal computer
systems with a graphical user interface (GUI) to be sold commercially. It uses a Motorola 68000
CPU clocked at 5 MHz and has 1 MB of RAM.
Link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lisa#:~:text=The%20Lisa%20was%20first%20introduced,h
as%201%20MB%20of%20RAM.

22. What was IBM’s first computer and what year did it come out?
Ans: The IBM Personal Computer is the first computer released in the IBM PC model line and
the basis for the IBM PC compatible de facto standard. Released on August 12, 1981, it was
created by a team of engineers and designers directed by Don Estridge in Boca Raton, Florida.
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer

23. What was the date that the WWW was introduced to the public?
Ans: On 30 April 1993, CERN put the World Wide Web software in the public domain. Later,
CERN made a release available with an open license, a surer way to maximize its dissemination.
Link: https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-
web#:~:text=On%2030%20April%201993%2C%20CERN,way%20to%20maximise%20its%20
dissemination.

24. Who coined the term “information Superhighway”?

Ans: Former vice president and U.S. senator Al Gore coined the term “information
Superhighway”.
Link:
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/546218-the-information-superhighway-must-be-
accessible-and-affordable-for-all
25. What does USB stand for and what is it used for?
Ans: The term USB stands for "Universal Serial Bus". USB cable assemblies are some of the most
popular cable types available, used mostly to connect computers to peripheral devices such as
cameras, camcorders, printers, scanners, and more.
Link: https://www.l-com.com/frequently-asked-questions/what-is-a-usb-
cable#:~:text=The%20term%20USB%20stands%20for,printers%2C%20scanners%2C%20and%
20more.

26. Who first developed Google and when?

Ans: Google has its origins in "BackRub", a research project that was begun in 1996 by Larry
Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in Stanford,
California.
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google

27. What year was the iPod introduced?

Ans: IPod, portable media player developed by Apple Inc. and released in 2001 for the company's
Macintosh platform.
Link: https://www.britannica.com/technology/iPod

28. Who founded MySpace and in what year?

Ans: Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe, employees of the Internet marketing company eUniverse
(later Intermix Media), created Myspace in 2003.
Link: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Myspace

29. Who founded Facebook and in what year?

Ans: Facebook, American company offering online social networking services. Facebook was
founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, all
of whom were students at Harvard University.
Link: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Facebook

30. What year were the following companies founded?

Hewlett Packard- 1 January 1939, Palo Alto, California, United States
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewlett-Packard
Apple- 1 April 1976, Los Altos, California, United States
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.
Microsoft- 4 April 1975, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft
IBM- 16 June 1911, Endicott, New York, United States
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM
Dell- 1 February 1984, Austin, Texas, United States
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell