Web Quest Scavenger Hunt
By; Kyle Paquin and Pat Gagliardi
Where it all began! Question 1
http://io9.com/the-history-of-early-computing-machines-from-ancient-t-549202742
Picture mania! Question 2
Abacus binary system
http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/hermann.moisl/sel2211/lectur30.jpg
IBM 701
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/IBM_701co
nsole.jpg
GENIAC
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102620962
UNIVAC II
Atari 400
Commodore 64
Number 3 What role did texas Instruments play?
Question 4 Vannevar Bush was born on March 11th 1890
Website: http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/bush.html
Location: Everett, MA, United States
Question 5 INTERNET!!!
http://www.itu.int/net/itunews/issues/2009/10/34.aspx
The electronic commerce began in 1991 which is also known as e-commerce.
Craigslist! Number 6
The site was designed as a classified advertisements website along with sections devoted to housing, jobs, personal, for sale, wanted, services, community, resumes, and discussion forms. This sites main purpose is for people to communicate via internet to buy and sell items.
You can access this site any where in the world as long as you have internet. http://www.craigslist.org/about/sites
There is no store front or shopping cart, The site also does not make much money besides selling advertising space. For example it costs 10$ to post an apartment for rent in NYC.
Number 8 Apple co founders
Microsoft
First Video Game
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blcomputer_videogames.htm
NHL 14 has a lot of in game advertisements.
WALT DISNEY CAROUSEL OF PROGRESS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney's_Carousel_of_Progress
Question 15, First computer weight.
The UNIVAC was the first computer.
http://royal.pingdom.com/2012/03/30/univac-computer-infographic/
Question 16, Chess match
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/deep-blue-defeats-garry-kasparov-in-chess-match
Question 17
ITunes Data
Ancient Culture
The Babylon created the first algorithms, linear equations, and geometric problems under the hammurabi dynasty. http://www.math.tamu.edu/~dallen/masters/egypt_babylon/babylon.pdf