Computer Apps Web Quest
Andy Pallis & David Norfleet
Scavenger Hunt
3.)
Texas Instruments created a silicon- based junction transistor in 1954. It approached the human brain in scope and reliability, by incorporating the first commercial production of silicon transistors kernel-sized substitutes for vacuum tubes.
http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/?year=1954
4.) Event on David's Birthday
John McCarthy 9/4/1927
Developed LISP -- the first computer language designed for writing Artificial Intelligence (AI) programs.
Andy's Birthday
US Companies Get Aid From Government 4/28/1994
The Clinton administration created a million dollar program to aid US computer companies in light of Japan owning 95% of the industry
http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/April/28/
http://www.psychorgone.com/sociology/president-clinton-vs-emotional-plague
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5.) The first website was published in August 6th, 1991 but CERN put World Wide Web software in domain on April 30th, 1993. In 1975, E-Commerce was introduced.
http://www.miva.com/blog/the-history-of-ecommerce-how-did-it-all-begin
http://home.web.cern.ch/topics/birth-web
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6.)
Youtube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim in 2005.
It was created to entertain by allowing people to upload videos and for others to view them.
You can access it using any search engine or by downloading an app on your phone.
It does not have a shopping cart because you can view and upload videos for free.
They make money by advertising for other companies
7.)
Bill gates founded microsoft in the year April 4, 1975, it is now worth $290 billion.
http://news.microsoft.com/facts-about-microsoft/
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http://www.biography.com/people/steve-jobs-9354805
http://www.biography.com/people/steve-wozniak-9537334
http://media.gotraffic.net/images/i3pBpRhUwRps/v14/640x-1.jpg
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Bill Gates- He became interested in technology at the age of 13. While he attended Lakeside Schools a computer company allowed the students to have computer time, this was when his interest in computers started. In 1973 at the age of 15, Gates and his friend Paul Allen, developed a computer program that monitored traffic in Seattle. It netted $20,000. Developed Microsoft in 1975 and by 1978 became a company with a net worth of $2.5 million.
http://www.biography.com/people/bill-gates-9307520#early-career
http://images.boomsbeat.com/data/images/full/595/bill-gates-jpg.jpg
Paul Allen- In 1975, college drop-outs Allen and Gates founded Microsoft. 1983, Allen, known as the "idea man" counterpart to Gates' "man of action," resigned from Microsoft after being diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease, and undergoing several months of radiation treatment. From 1994 to 1998, Allen built an infrastructure of well over 30 different companies in pursuit of his "wired world" strategy.
http://www.biography.com/people/paul-allen-9542239#departure-from-microsoft
http://i.space.com/images/i/000/025/165/original/PaulAllen.jpg?135853350110.)
Mark Zuckerberg- Zuckerberg developed an interest in computers at an early age; when he was about 12, he used Atari BASIC to create a messaging program he named "Zucknet." Zuckerberg and his friends created a site that allowed users to create their own profiles, upload photos, and communicate with other users. The group ran the site—first called The Facebook—out of a dorm room at Harvard until June 2004. After his sophomore year, Zuckerberg dropped out of college to devote himself to Facebook full time, moving the company to Palo Alto, California. By the end of 2004, Facebook had 1 million users.
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Evan Williams- He attended the University of Nebraska at Lincoln for a year and a half, leaving to pursue a career based in information systems. Williams was writing computer code and freelancing for both Hewlett-Packard and Intel. Co- founded Blogger and in 2004, Williams was named a "Person of the Year" by PC Magazine for his work on Blogger. In 2006, he co-founded the Obvious Corporation with Biz Stone, Jack Dorsey and Noah Glass.
http://img.tedcdn.com/r/images.ted.com/images/ted/74570_800x600.jpg?ll=1&quality=89&w=800
12.)
In October 1958, Physicist William Higinbotham created the first video game. It was a very simple tennis game and it was quite a hit at a Brookhaven National Laboratory open house. It was called Tennis for Two.
http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200810/physicshistory.cfm
http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC301A1_pong-video-game-classic-series
13.)
Product placement is seen almost everywhere, a common place to see it is in video games. In the popular basketball game NBA2K the player often will see the Gatorade logo in pop up menus and on the sides of the courts.
http://www.brandchannel.com/home/image.axd?picture=2011%2F2%2Fgatorade+ea+sports.jpg
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/4GUHSJHu2HY/maxresdefault.jpg
14.)
The Carousel of Progress is the Disney ride that explores the Past- Present- Future of technology. It travels through the 20th century to see how technology has improved our way of life during this classic Audio-Animatronics show.
https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/attractions/magic-kingdom/walt-disney-carousel-of-progress/
15.)
http://www.dimensionsinfo.com/how-big-is-the-first-computer/
16.)
In May 11 1997, a chess- playing computer called Deep Blue defeated Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparor.
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17.) Plankalkul was a plan in 1940 by Karl Zues to developed the first real programming language the language allowed for the creation of procedures and structured data.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/130429/computer#ref723715
http://history-computer.com/ModernComputer/Software/Plankalkul.html
18.)
CNET claims Amazon may have sold close to 5 million Kindle Fire tablets since the device debuted late last year. That's the number estimated by Asymco analyst Horace Dediu based on Amazon's own claims. This is only one kind of electronic sold over internet commerce there were millions more sold over the past year.
http://www.cnet.com/news/how-many-kindle-fires-did-amazon-sell-5m-maybe/
http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Fire-Amazon-Tablet/dp/B0051VVOB2
19.)
http://www.ancient.eu/hammurabi/
http://www.thenagain.info/WebChron/MiddleEast/Hammurabi.html
20.)
Performance Foodservices provide the snacks, beverages, and apparel for the Dogpound school store.
http://www.performancefoodservice.com/Company-Information/About-Us.aspx
http://www.trademarkia.com/performance-foodservice-have-a-taste-77759924.html