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Brian's Class Materials- Fall 2010 - SEYS 753

History of Computing Scavenger Hunt
by
Brian Murfin


Work in small groups on this assignment.  Please post your results on the Discussion Board in BlackBoard.  Use search engines to answer the following questions:


   1.  Who invented the Internet?

   2.  Who invented the World Wide Web

   3.  Who invented the computer?

   4.  Who coined the term "bug" in relation to computer programming?

   5. What is "object oriented programming"?

   6. Name three different computer programming languages.

   7.  Define the term byte.

   8. Define the term  bit.

   9.  Explain how the Internet works.

  10. What is steganography?

  11. What is the Turing Test?

  12. What is a captcha?