Name: Angela Ortiz Date: 10-11-13 Period: 5
Internet Treasure Hunt
Searching this computer hunt could make you more knowledgeable about the computer than your teacher. Use
the links to go to a site that has the answer. Type your answers in the Word document in a different, easy-toread color like green, red, dark orange, purple, etc. Remember to save your completed document on your
webpage.
1. What does DVD stand for? Nothing
2. What is a dingbat? Special characters like stars, hands, arrows, and geometric shapes
Give an example of a use for these special font characters.
3. What is a handshake? Just as two people shake hands to greet each other.
4. What is a home page? A home page can include special underlined text or graphics you click on to
jump to related information on other pages on the Web
5. What handles can you not hold in your hand? You can move a handle with your mouse pointer to resize
or reshape the graphic
6. What kind of wafers are used at Intel to make computer chips? sand
7. What is a modem? data over telephone or cable lines
8. What does modem stand for anyway? modulator-demodulator
9. In what year was the first World-Wide Web software created by Tim Berners-Lee? (Hint search in the
timeline only) Don’t Answer.
10. Project Gutenberg puts on the Internet public domain literature and information.
What was the first document posted?
11. When were floppy disks introduced? (hint they were first called magnetic disks) mid-1970s
12. What do the letters CD-ROM stand for? Compact Disc-Read Only Memory.
13. Name three computer peripherals. Any external device that plugs into your computer, such as a
printer, modem, scanner, or tape drive
14. What is an advantage of the Dvorak keyboard? typing is easier, and faster
15. What is a computer virus? program designed to spread itself by first infecting
executable files or the system areas of hard and floppy disks and then making copies of itself.
16. How do you enter a © (copyright symbol) in a Word document? Alt+ctrl+c
17. What is a byte? a group of binary digits or bits
18. What is a kilobyte? a unit of memory or data equal to
19. What is a megabyte? a unit of information equal to 220 bytes or, loosely, one million bytes
20. What is a gigabyte? a unit of information equal to one billion (109) or, strictly, 230 bytes
21. What is a terabyte? a unit of information equal to one million million (1012) or strictly, 240 bytes
22. How many megabytes of data can a factory made audio CD hold? little as 800 MB, while some hold as
much as 8GB.
23. Which is older: you or the World Wide Web?
googel
By how much?alot
24. USB flash drives have replaced floppy disks. What is a USB flash drive? The USB, Universal Serial Bus, Flash Drive
was introduced as an alternative to floppy disks with the advantage of being more reliable, more durable, much faster and with much larger
storage capacity.
25. What is a computer virus? A computer virus is a program designed to spread itself by first infecting
executable files or the system areas of hard and floppy disks and then making copies of itself
26. Name three computer peripherals. Any external device that plugs into your computer, such as a printer,
modem, scanner, or tape drive
27. Apple Computer's G4 is a supercomputer because its operations can be measured in gigaflops.
What is a gigaflop? A measure of computing speed equal to one billion floating-point operations per second.
28. What is spyware? Spyware is Internet jargon for Advertising Supported software (Adware). What
does it do? Spyware software is a program, usually downloaded for free from the Internet, that sends information from the
user's computer without their knowledge whenever the computer connects to the Internet
29. List two search engines for finding images: goggle and art work
30. What is a domain name? The Domain Name System (DNS) helps users to find their way around the Internet
31. Why should you "Post to be Private" in social networking sites? Setting your page to private is smart and a step
in the right direction -- but who's on your friends list? Don't give just anyone access to your world.
"Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months." Clifford Stoll