Web Quest Scavenger Hunt
By: Brennan Hughes and Zac Tucci
The Quipu

Abacus Binary System | IBM 701 | Geniac |
IBM 701
Univac II | Atari 400 | Commodore 64 |
Texas Instruments
The chip helps the deaf to hear and is the heartbeat of a myriad of medical diagnostic machines.
The chip has also touched education, transportation, manufacturing and entertainment.
http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/kilbyctr/jackbuilt.shtml
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March 18
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/today.cgi?d=03%2F18&s=Submit
Internet and E-commerce
E-commerce began in 1991, after the Internet was available to the public.
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2011/08/06/20-years-ago-today-the-world-wide-web-opened-to-the-public/
Ebay
Allows customers to buy and sell New and Used goods from all around the world
Accessible from computer, phone, ipad, tablet etc.
The "buy now" feature allows customers to purchase items on the spot.
Their profit comes from charging a 10% fee on every sold item.
http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~magnus/ief248a/eBay/history.html
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Microsoft
Apple
http://www.loc.gov/rr/business/businesshistory/April/apple.html
Pic: http://insideevs.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/apple-logo.png

Steve Jobs, Ronald Wayne, Steve Wozniak
Microsoft

Bill Gates, Paul Allen
https://www.facebook.com/realsteelmechanical/posts/361588717325954
http://www.socialnomics.net/2013/01/23/the-history-of-twitter/

Evan Williams, Biz Stone, Jack Dorsey

Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes
First Computer Game
Spaceship Earth
https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/attractions/epcot/spaceship-earth/
First Computer
Chess Playing
http://www.npr.org/2014/08/08/338850323/kasparov-vs-deep-blue
Plankalkul
Kindle
http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2014/04/02/estimating-kindle-e-book-sales-for-amazon/
The Babylonians
http://www.math.tamu.edu/~dallen/history/babylon/babylon.html