Scavenger Hunt
By: Anna and Ethan
Difference Engine
http://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/common/img/welcome-babbageengine.jpg
Abacus Binary System
The Role of Texas Instruments
In 1958, Jack Kilby, a Texas Instrument inventor, demonstrated the first integrated circuit. It was 7/16” and contained two transistors.
http://mason.gmu.edu/~montecin/computer-hist-web.htm
History of March 17
Internet and E-commerce
The public was first introduced to the internet in 1972, at the International Computer Communication Conference.
E-commerce began with the invention of electricity, cables, computer, modems, and the internet. E-commerce became possible in 1991.
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/99internet1.html
http://www.ecommerce-land.com/history_ecommerce.html
http://cdn2.business2community.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/web-30-6.jpg
Favorite Website: Google.com
Founders: Larry Page, Sergey Brin
Use: “perfect search engine”
Purpose: Making it as easy as possible to find the information that you need and to get the things you need to do done.
Access: You can access google on any device that has to ability to connect to to the internet.
Shopping: You have the ability to shop on Google.com, however they also make profit off of advertisements.
http://www.google.com/about/company/products/
https://www.portada-online.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Google.png
Microsoft
Microsoft Founders: Paul Allen and Bill Gates
Founded: April 4, 1975, Albuquerque, NM
Worth: Microsoft is currently worth about $290 billion
http://money.cnn.com/2013/10/18/investing/microsoft-apple/
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1315608/thumbs/o-MICROSOFT-CHARTS-570.jpg?7
Apple's Biography
Steve Jobs was born on February 24 1955, in Los Altos California. During his high school years, Jobs worked summers at Hewlitt-Packard, it was there that he first met his future business partner Steve Wozniak.
http://inventors.about.com/od/ijstartinventors/p/Steve-Jobs.htm
Microsoft's Biography
n 1975, before graduation Gates left Harvard to form Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen. The pair planned to develop software for the newly emerging personal computer market.
http://inventors.about.com/od/gstartinventors/a/Bill_Gates.htm
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Admin/BkFill/Default_image_group/2011/4/29/1304090943002/Microsoft-Founders-Bill-G-007.jpgFacebook's Biography
Mark Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984,in White Plains, New York. His father, Edward Zuckerberg is a dentist, and his mother, Karen Zuckerberg is a psychiatrist. Mark and his three sisters, Randi, Donna, and Arielle, were raised in Dobbs Ferry, New York, a sleepy, well-off town on the bank of the Hudson River.
http://inventors.about.com/od/Computer-Geek/p/Mark-Zuckerberg.htm
Twitter's Biography
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, on November 19, 1976, Jack Dorsey became involved in web development as a college student, founding the Twitter social networking site in 2006. Since that time, Dorsey has served as CEO, chairman of the board, and executive chairman of Twitter. He also launched the successful online payment platform Square in 2010.
http://www.biography.com/people/jack-dorsey-578280
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BJpEd7n6ITc/UH9wWdeUJaI/AAAAAAAAFzQ/Z2sFgC8TkWI/s1600/image.jpg
First Computer Game
In 1952, A.S. Douglas wrote his PhD degree at the University of Cambridge on Human-Computer interaction. Douglas created the first graphical computer game - a version of Tic-Tac-Toe.
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blcomputer_videogames.htm
https://www.wayneandlayne.com/files/vgs/images/screencaps/tic_tac_toe.png
Product Placement
Over the years, developing video games has become more expensive and so producers have looked toward in-game advertisements to help make extra revenue. In the video game, Burnout Paradise, there are Obama Political ads. This was most likely done as a way to target younger voters.
http://listverse.com/2013/08/04/9-strange-product-placements-in-videogames/
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/10/burnoutparadiseobama.jpg
Walt Disney’s Carousel of Progress
First Computer
The first computer weighed more than 60,000 pounds and contained more than 18,000 vacuum tubes. It used about 3,600,000 watts.
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/comeniac.htm
Chess Computer
http://www.usefultrivia.com/miscellaneous_trivia/computer_trivia_005a.html
Plankalkul
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/725632/Plankalkul
http://www.zib.de/zuse/Inhalt/Programme/Plankalkuel/Plankalkuel-Report/Image8.gif
Online Shopping
In 2011 Ecommerce had $763,200,000,000 online sales.
http://www.statisticbrain.com/total-online-sales/
History of Mathematics
The Sumerians developed the earliest known writing system - a pictographic writing system known as cuneiform script, this has meant that we actually have more knowledge of ancient Sumerian and Babylonian mathematics
http://www.storyofmathematics.com/sumerian.html
School Store
The cookie provider for the dogpound is the company Donabedian. The snack provider is J Polep. The online portal for placing orders is http://66.189.98.220:8150/webapps/usrlogon.pgm
Link to Jpolep: http://jpolep.com/
The orders from Donabedian are made over the phone