Cybersecurity
This type of email attack targets both businesses and individuals, aiming to trick them into revealing sensitive information or sending money.
What is Phishing?
This is what refers to the physical components of a computer.
What is hardware?
This museum in Mountain View California has many exhibits about the history of computers.
What is the Computer History Museum?
This Google-backed “moonshot” project aimed to provide internet access to remote areas using high-altitude balloons.
What is Project-Loon?
Because fixed-line internet is often sparse, many developing nations have leapfrogged directly to this type of wireless technology for computer and mobile access.
What is Mobile/Cellular Data?
This type of security measure requires at least two different methods to verify a user's identity before granting access.
What is Multi-Factor Authentication?
This software is used by 5.01 billion people around the world and is often used to search the web.
What is Google?
This computer was introduced on August 12, 1981, and was marked as a significant shift in the computing landscape.
What was the IBM Personal Computer
While high-income countries are near universal, only about 23% of the population in this specific economic group of countries are using the internet as of 2025.
What are low income countries?
This term refers to the gap between demographics and regions that have access to modern information technology and those that do not.
What is Digital Divide?
Short for “Bring Your own Device" this type of company dictates how employees can use personal devices for work.
What is BYOD?
This hardware is the central hub of the computer.
What is the motherboard?
This machine was developed in 1961 by Bell Labs and is often heard singing Daisy Bell in a robotic sounding voice and let to text to speech technologies.
What was the Voice Recorder Synthesizer?
Ghana's The CocoaLink project, which provides agricultural information to farmers, is an example of an initiative designed to overcome this type of barrier, not just infrastructure.
What is digital literacy?
In Many African nations these devices are used to access the internet and read digital books that cost less to operate than a full computer program.
What are E-Book Readers?
This type of hacker, often called "white hat," helps companies by legally testing systems for vulnerabilities.
What is a Ethical-Hacker (or White Hat)?
When computers were getting more and more popular in households this software was incredibly popular with children.
What is MS Paint?
This virus was one of the biggest in all of history being sent to computers worldwide in the year 2000 by email the attachment saying "Kindly check the LOVELETTER sent by me".
What was the ILOVEYOU Virus?
As of 2026, over 6 billion people are online, but this continent has the lowest internet penetration rate at only about 36%.
What is Africa?
This type of technology is used to quickly and cheaply provide internet to remote, rural, or off-grid locations where laying physical cables is impractical.
What is Satellite Internet?
This type of malware, unlike a virus, is self-replicating and spreads through networks without needing a host file to attach to.
What is a Worm?
This person is often contributed to making the first ever computer software for Charles Babbage’s computer.
Who was Ada Lovelace?
This was the world's first supercomputer developed in 1964 by Seymour Cray.
What was the CDC 6600?
This alliance, partnering with companies like Meta and Google, focuses on reforming regulations to make internet access more affordable, targeting a 1-for-2 goal (1GB of data for 2% of income).
What is the Alliance for Affordable Internet?
This type of library, which can be easily distributed on low-cost hardware, allows for the assembly of dissemination of information without needing a large, physical building.
What is a digital library?