Web Quest Scavenger Hunt
Ryan Lee and Bri Purcell
-----Question 1-----
Earliest Computing Device: Antikythera Mechanism
-----Question 2-----
Abacus Binary System (14th Century)
UNIVAC II (1951)
(http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/univac-computer-dedicated)
IBM 701 (1952-1953)
(http://inventors.about.com/od/computersandinternet/a/IBM701.htm)
GENIAC (1958)
(http://www.earlycomputers.com/cgi-bin/item-report-main.cgi?20110224)
Atari 400 (1978)
Commodore 64 (1982)
-----Question 3-----
Texas Instruments created a chip that ultimately created the modern computer industry.
The chip restructured communications, fostering a host of new ways for instant exchanges of information between people, businesses and nations.Without the chip, man could not explore space or fly to the moon. Also, the chip helps the deaf to hear and is the heartbeat of a myriad of medical diagnostic machines.
-----Question 4-----
Today's Date (3/16/15)
Event: 3/16/2006- Bill Gates mocks MIT’s $100 laptop project.
Birthday (5/21/98)
Event: 5/21/2004 News: Intel Sued for Patent Infringement
-----Question 5-----
When the Internet was Available to the Public
Date the internet was made available to the public: August 6, 1991
(http://thenextweb.com/insider/2011/08/06/20-years-ago-today-the-world-wide-web-opened-to-the-public/)
When E-Commerce Began
Year the E-Commerce began: 1991
It is where commercial transactions can be conducted electronically on the Internet
The public is introduced to both Internet and E-Commerce.
-----Question 6-----
Favorite Website: google
Larry Page, Sergey Brin
September 15, 1997
To make it as easy as possible for you to find the information you need and get the things you need to do done.
Larry Page, our co-founder and CEO, once described the “perfect search engine” as something that “understands exactly what you mean and gives you back exactly what you want
Google
(Does it have a storefront?)yes
they own a company
-----Question 7-----
Paul Allen and Bill Gates founded Microsoft in the year 1975, it is now worth $258 billion.
-----Question 8-----
Apple's Co-founders
(http://www.biography.com/people/steve-jobs-9354805)
(http://www.ronaldgwayne.com/page/bio)
(http://www.biography.com/people/steve-wozniak-9537334)
-----Question 9-----
Microsoft's Co-Founders
Paul Allen: He was an entrepreneur and investor. He was born in 1954 in Seattle, Washington. While attending the Lakeside School outside Seattle, 14-year-old Paul Allen met 12-year-old Bill Gates, a fellow student and computer enthusiast. Less than a decade later, in June 1975, Allen and Gates, both college dropouts; Allen from Washington State University, founded Microsoft with the intention of designing software for the new wave of personal computers.
(http://www.biography.com/people/paul-allen-9542239#early-entrepreneurial-ventures)
(http://www.biography.com/people/bill-gates-9307520#early-life)
-----Question 10-----
Facebook's Co-Founders
(http://www.4-traders.com/business-leaders/Dustin-Moskovitz-1249/biography/)
(http://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/andrew-mccollum.html)
-----Question 11-----
Twitter's Co-Founders
(http://www.biography.com/people/jack-dorsey-578280#synopsis)
(http://www.biography.com/people/evan-williams-21402351#early-years)
(http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=26725543&privcapId=23553202)
-----Question 12-----
First Computer Video Game: Spacewar (1961)
1961: Steve Russell, student at MIT, created Spacewar, the first interactive computer game. It runs on a Digital PDP-1 mainframe computer, and the graphics are made up of ASCII text characters.
(http;//www.infoplease.com/spot/gamestimeline1.html#ixzz3UYJk2MWk)
-----Question 13-----
Product Placement in Modern Video Game: (FIFA Soccer)
http://c5.nrostatic.com/sites/default/files/uploaded/FIFA%20171214.jpg
-----Question 14-----
Disney World Ride: Spaceship Earth
This ride explores the Past-Present-and Future of technology.
(https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/attractions/epcot/spaceship-earth/)
-----Question 15-----
The First Computer/Laptop: The Osborne
Amount of Electricity it Used: 64K RAM
(http://techie-buzz.com/did-you-know/dyk-thursday-the-first-ever-laptop-weighed-12-kg.html)
-----Question 16-----
In May 1997, a chess-playing computer called Deep Blue defeated Russian chess grand master Garry Kasparov.
-----Question 17-----
Plankalkul by Karl Zues (1940)
(http://www.atariarchives.org/bcc3/showpage.php?page=160) & (http://www.catb.org/retro/plankalkuel/)
-----Question 18-----
Frequency of Kindles Bought Online
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Xx9W8gdRL.jpg
-----Question 19-----
The Babylonians http://www.math.tamu.edu/~dallen/masters/egypt_babylon/babylon.pdf our knowledge of mankindís use of mathematics comes from the
Egyptians and Babylonians. Both civilizations developed mathematic that was similar in scope , different in particulars.
https://i1.wp.com/math.ucr.edu/home/baez/Babylonian_symbols.gif
-----Question 20-----
School Store
Link to website: http://www.performancefoodservice.com