Technology Milestones
Reportedly the first call on a commercially sold radio pager was in 1950 to a doctor who was doing this at the time
What is Golfing?
Cloud computing holds onto your data with vast arrays or farms of these computers that process requests
What are Servers?
Most modern supercomputers run on this operating system developed by Linus Torvalds
What is Linux?
Erase a hard disk before disposing of a computer: putting personal data out there risks this 2-word crime
What is Identity Theft?
The special field of computer science trying to come up with machines that think for themselves
What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)?
The IBM computer of 1928 stored its data on these
What are Punch Cards?
The tracks on a printed circuit board are made of this metal
What is Copper?
In 1977 Dennis Hayes & Dale Heatherington invented this enabling a PC to transmit data via phone lines
What is a Modem?
To hackers, this way into a house also means a security bypass that can let a virus infect a computer
What is a Backdoor?
If you're using a GPS device to get around you should know that GPS stands for this
What is a Global Positioning System?
On February 29th 2008, Blu-Ray emerged as the new video disc choice as this Japanese company abandoned its HD-DVD format
What is Toshiba?
What does CPU stand for?
What is the Central Processing Unit?
The British computer scientist, Tim Berners-Lee invented this in 1989
What is the World Wide Web (WWW)?
The first computers to use passwords was probably this New England University's CTSS computer in the 1960s
What is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)?
A basic electronic calculator does multiplication by translating it into a series of this simpler operation
What is Addition?
In 1973 Bob Metcalfe invented this while he worked at Xerox. It is the most widely used Local Area Networking (LAN) technology in the world today.
What is Ethernet?
Today, it's easy connecting devices by using USB; older computers use 2 types of ports, parallel and this one
What is a Serial Port?
Charles Proteus Steinmetz did the math & came up with a way for this type of current circuitry to work
What is Alternating Current (AC)?
In computers, DOS can either stand for Disk Operating System or this type of attack that keeps users from a site
What is Denial of Service?
In computer science, what does GUI stand for?
What is a Graphical User Interface?
Shirley Ann Jackson was the African American woman to receive a doctorate from MIT, and the first African American woman to serve as president at a top-ranked research university. However, she is best known for her work at Bell Labs, where she created the technology responsible for this service
What is Caller ID/Call Waiting?
A big hit with 1960s scientists, the CDC 1604 was one of the first computers with these instead of vacuum tubes
What are Transistors?
Bob Bemer was Father of the 5-letter standard by which computers read keystrokes & he later had it as his license plate
What is ASCII?
Companies consider cybersecurity when instructing employees with a policy on BYOD, short for this.
What is Bring Your Own Device?
In binary, 1011 converts to what decimal value?
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