ROSALINDA A.

MENOR BSA1B

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?

= The U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was the first public
packet-switched computer network. It was first used in 1969 and finally decommissioned in
1989.
ARPANET's main use was for academic and research purposes. Many of the protocols used by
computer networks today were developed for ARPANET, and it is considered the forerunner of
the modern internet.
(https://www.techtarget.com/searchnetworking/definition/ARPANET)

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

= Tim Berners-Lee
In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web (see the original proposal). He coined
the term "World Wide Web," wrote the first World Wide Web server, "httpd," and the first client
program (a browser and editor), "World Wide Web," in October 1990.
(https://www.w3.org/Consortium/facts)

3. Who wrote the first Internet program?

= Tim Berners-Lee
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.
(https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductee/tim-berners-lee/)
4. In what year was the personal computer invented?
= 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
(https://www.britannica.com/technology/personal-computer)

5. Who were the inventors of the personal computer?

The name of the inventors most closely associated with inventing the Personal Computer are
Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011) and Steve Wozniak who jointly founded the Apple corporation.
(https://www.who-invented-the.technology/personal-computer.htm)

6. What company did they found?

IBM Corporation, the world's dominant computer maker, did not enter the new market until
1981, when it introduced the IBM Personal Computer, or IBM PC.
(https://www.britannica.com/technology/personal-computer)

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

= In fact, email as a concept predates the internet by a wide margin. The first example of email
can be found on computers at MIT in a program called “MAILBOX”, all the way back in 1965.
(https://phrasee.co/news/a-brief-history-of-email/)

= Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while
working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for
automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the
world.
(https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web/short-history-
web#:~:text=Tim%20Berners%2DLee%2C%20a%20British,and%20institutes%20around%2
0the%20world)
8. What year was the first all-electronic computer introduced and what was it called?
=ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first programmable, electronic,
general-purpose digital computer, completed in 1945.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC)

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

In 1975, Ed Roberts coined the term "personal computer" when he introduced the Altair 8800
(https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/courses/compsci111s2c/lectures/andre/computerhope_com_issues_
ch000984.pdf)

10. What is QWERTY and who invented it?

QWERTY refers to the first six letters on the upper row of the keyboard. The key arrangement
was devised by Christopher Latham Sholes, whose Type-Writer, as it was then called, was first
mass-produced in 1874.
(https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/QWERTY-keyboard)

11. What does WYSIWYG stand for, coined the phrase, and what did they do?
= WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET, is a system in which editing software allows content to be
edited in a form that resembles its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product, such
as a printed document, web page, or slide presentation s what you get."
https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/WYSIWYG-what-you-see-is-what-you-get

12. Who invented the computer mouse and what year?

= Bill English, then the chief engineer at SRI, built the first computer mouse prototype in 1964
(https://www.sri.com/hoi/computer-mouse-and-interactive-computing/)

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

=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.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_floppy_disk)
14. What was the size of the first floppy disk?
= The first floppy disk was introduced in 1971. It was an 8-inch flexible magnetic disk in a
square case.
(https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/floppy/transform/)

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

= Floppy disks are most commonly sold in the 5¼- and 8-inch sizes. Smaller floppies are also
available
(https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/floppy-disk)

16. What was the first computer, who invented it, and when?
=The first computer was invented by Charles Babbage (1822) but was not built until 1991! Alan
Turing invented computer science. The ENIAC (1945) was the first electronic general-purpose
digital computer; it filled a room. The Micral N was the world's first “personal computer”(1973).
(https://www.bricsys.com/blog/who-invented-computers)

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

= Operators traced an error in the Mark II to a moth trapped in a relay, coining the term bug
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug)

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

= 58.8%
(https://www.statista.com/statistics/262946/most-common-languages-on-the-internet/)

19. What is a domain name?

= Domain name is a string that identifies a realm of administrative autonomy, authority or control.
Also, often used to identify services provided through the Internet, such as websites, email services
and more.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name)
20. What does Sputnik have to do with the Internet?
= The Soviet Union's launch of the Sputnik satellite spurred the U.S. Defense Department to
consider ways information could still be disseminated even after a nuclear attack.
(https://www.usg.edu/galileo/skills/unit07/internet07_02.phtml)

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

= 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
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lisa)

22. What was IBM’s first computer and what year did it come out?
= IBM's own Personal Computer (IBM 5150) was introduced in August 1981, only a year after
corporate executives gave the go-ahead to Bill Lowe, the lab director in the company's Boca
Raton, Fla., facilities. He set up a task force that developed the proposal for the first IBM PC.
(https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/pc25/pc25_birth.html)

23. What was the date that the WWW was introduced to the public?
= On April 30, 1993, four years after publishing a proposal for “an idea of linked information
systems,” computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee released the source code for the world's first web
browser and editor.
(https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/world-wide-web-launches-in-public-domain)

24. Who coined the term “information Superhighway”?

= PIP: In 1994, Vice President Al Gore coined the concept of the Information Superhighway
during a speech in Buenos Aires in which he proposed the development of a global information
infrastructure.
(https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12290854/)

25. What does USB stand for and what is it used for?
= 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.
(https://www.l-com.com/frequently-asked-questions%2Fwhat-is-a-usb-cable)

26. Who first developed Google and when?

= Google, in full Google LLC formerly Google Inc. (1998–2017), American search engine
company, founded in 1998 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page, that is a subsidiary of the holding
company Alphabet Inc.
(https://www.britannica.com/topic/Google-Inc)

27. What year was the iPod introduced?

= October 23, 2001 was the first MP3 player to pack a mind-blowing 1,000 songs and a 10-hour

battery into a stunning 6.5-ounce package.

(https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/05/the-music-lives-on/)

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.

(https://www.britannica.com/topic/Myspace)

29. Who founded Facebook and in what year?

= On February 4, 2004, a Harvard sophomore named Mark Zuckerberg launches The
Facebook, a social media website he had built in order to connect Harvard students with one
another.
(https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/facebook-launches-mark-zuckerberg)

30. What year were the following companies founded?

Hewlett Packard
= HP was founded by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard in 1939.
(https://www.computerhistory.org/brochures/g-i/hewlettpackard-company-hp/)
 Apple
= Apple Computer, Inc. was founded on April 1, 1976, by college dropouts Steve Jobs and
Steve Wozniak, who brought to the new company a vision of changing the way people viewed
computers.
(https://guides.loc.gov/this-month-in-business-history/april/apple-computer-founded)

Microsoft
= On April 4, 1975, at a time when most Americans used typewriters, childhood friends Bill

Gates and Paul Allen found Microsoft, a company that makes computer software.
(https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/microsoft-founded)

IBM
= IBM was founded in 1911 in Endicott, New York; as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording
Company (CTR) and was renamed "International Business Machines" in 1924
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM)

Dell
= Founded by Michael Dell in 1984, the company focuses today on sales of personal
computers, network servers, data storage solutions, and software.
(https://fortune.com/company/dell-technologies/)