Early Technology
This early device used beads to help perform calculations.
What is the abacus?
First-generation computers used this technology.
What are vacuum tubes?
The early network created by the U.S. government that eventually became the internet.
What is ARPANET?
Technology that allows computers to simulate human intelligence.
What is Artificial Intelligence?
Known as the Father of the Computer.
Who is Charles Babbage?
A step-by-step set of instructions used to solve a problem.
What is an algorithm?
This technology replaced vacuum tubes and made computers smaller.
What are transistors?
The system of websites and hyperlinks that made the internet easy to use.
What is the World Wide Web?
Technology that allows data to be stored online instead of on a personal computer.
What is Cloud Computing?
Often considered the first computer programmer.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
One of the first large electronic computers that filled an entire room.
What is ENIAC?
This technology placed multiple electronic components on a single chip.
What are integrated circuits?
This device connects computers and networks to the internet.
What is a router?
The technology that connects everyday devices to the internet.
What is the Internet of Things (IoT)?
Co-founder of Apple who helped popularize personal computers.
Who is Steve Jobs?
These paper cards were used by early computers to store instructions.
What are punch cards?
This invention made personal computers possible.
What is the microprocessor?
The address used to locate a webpage on the internet.
What is a URL?
Technology that creates immersive computer-generated environments.
What is Virtual Reality?
Co-founder of Microsoft who helped develop early personal computer software.
Who is Bill Gates?
This early mechanical computer design included memory, a processor, and input/output concepts.
What is the Analytical Engine?
This generation introduced personal computers and modern computing devices.
What is the fourth generation?
The five letters used to identify a webpage’s secure address, commonly seen at the beginning of a website URL.
What is HTTPS?
A portable device that combines computing, communication, and internet access.
What is a smartphone?
Inventor of the World Wide Web.
Who is Tim Berners-Lee?