FAST VOCAB
What is the main processor that carries out instructions and coordinates a computer’s operations?
CPU / Central Processing Unit
The First Website
1990
ARPANET
The United States Department of Defense
This 1971 invention placed computer processing onto one small chip.
Microprocessor
What does HTML organize and structure?
Content on webpages (How the page looks)
What does HTML mean?
HyperText Markup Language
Colossus began analyzing encrypted military messages during this year.
1944
The First E-mail
Ray Tomlinson
This person designed the Analytical Engine.
Charles Babbage
What mattered most about Ray Tomlinson’s early test email?
The new method of communication, not the message
What term means the programs and data that tell a computer what to do?
Software
Charles Babbage designed the Analytical Engine during this year.
1834
This 1981 computer became a business standard.
IBM PC
Ray Tomlinson used this symbol to separate the username from the computer name in an email address.
@ symbol
What did Tim Berners-Lee propose in 1989?
WWW (the world wide web)
What is a group of connected devices that share information?
Network
Integrated circuits placed multiple computer parts onto one chip during this year.
1958
Lost in Chess to the IBM Deep Blue Supercomputer
Garry Kasparov
What type of information did Colossus analyze during World War II?
Encrypted military messages
Why did the U.S. Department of Defense fund ARPANET?
To connect researchers and share information between computers
What small chip contains a computer’s central processing unit (CPU)?
Microprocessor
Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov during this year.
1997
This person published instructions for the Analytical Engine in 1843.
Ada Lovelace
What four features did the Macintosh help popularize in 1984?
Windows, icons, menus, and a mouse
What 2007 device combined a phone, media player, and internet device?
The iPhone