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The smallest unit of digital information, represented by a 1 or 0.
What is Bit?
A physical signal, such as text, numbers, graphics, or sound, interpreted by converting it into binary numbers.
What is Digital Data?
Information that a computer returns to a user such as images on a screen, sounds from speakers, and printed pages.
What is Output?
A way of reducing the size of files, making them easier to store.
What is File Compression?
This meme involves sending someone a link believed to be one thing, when it is actually the Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up".
What is Rickrolling?
A group of eight bits joined together.
What is Byte?
A smaller, faster, cheaper, and more durable electronic device that replaced mechanical relays, which were slow and tended to wear down over time.
What is a Transistor?
The part of a sound wave that is captured, measured, and assigned a numeric value during digital sound recording.
What is a Sample?
An international 16-bit encoding standard that accommodates character sets from multiple languages, with each letter, digit, or symbol being assigned a unique numeric value.
What is Unicode?
This meme came from cartoon rabbit Bugs Bunny in the cartoon "Wabbit Twouble".
Who is Big Chungus?
The number of pixels in the width and height of each frame in a digital video recording. The higher it is, the clearer the image will be.
What is Resolution?
An electronic device that allowed entire computers to be built into a single board, replacing modules for each part of the computer. Paved the way for personal computer ownership.
What is a Microchip?
A compression algorithm, such as GIF, PNG, PDF, and ZIP, that doesn't affect the original data. A file compressed using this, when decompressed, will be exactly the same as the file before compression, bit for bit.
What is Lossless Compression?
The number of images, or frames, that are taken each second during digital video recording.
What is Frame Rate?
This meme spawned from a Simpsons short about Principal Skinner burning his roast for an important luncheon and attempting to replace it with fast food.
What is Steamed Hams?
The number of individual samples taken each second during digital sound recording. Measured in Hertz, the higher it is, the better the recording. Most modern sound recordings are made at 44.1 kHz.
What is Sampling Rate?
The second step in designing a 3D model which converts the models into 2D images on a computer.
What is Rendering?
A compression algorithm, such as JPG, MP3, and MP4, that slightly alters the data to make it easier to store, taking advantage of the limitations of human sight and hearing, and is usually used for images, videos, and audio files.
What is Lossy Compression?
Images stored by mathematically describing the shapes in the image. A circle might be stored as a center point and the distance from the center point to the circle's edge. A square is stored as four lines, each with a beginning point and a length.
What are Vector Images?
The measurement in bits per second that information is transferred through a network from one computer to another. Measured in Kbps (kilobits per second), Mbps (megabits per second), and Gbps (gigabits per second).
What is Throughput?
The amount of memory used to store the numeric value of a sound sample during digital sound recording. 8-bit sound uses eight bits (or one byte) to store the value of each sample. 16-bit sound uses two bytes per sample.
What is Bit Depth?
The amount of memory the computer uses to display colors in a digital image or a digital video. 8-bit color images use one byte of data for each pixel. 24-bit color uses three bytes for each pixel.
What is Color Depth?
A common lossless compression algorithm that looks for repeated patterns of bits or bytes and records the pattern and then number of times the pattern is repeated.
What is Run-Length Encoding?
Images stored by dividing a picture into rows of pixels and collecting the color values of each pixel, in order, row-by-row.
What are Raster Images?
This small shibe dog, not to be confused with Doge, is often used to represent people who complain or whine about fairly normal events.
Who is Cheems?