What is the American Standard Code for Information Interchange?
Established in 1963
100
Dr. Larry F. Johnson has a Ph.D. in this.
What is Educational Administration?
His dissertation was “Relationship of Performance in Developmental Mathematics to Academic Success in College-Level Algebra.” - which he typed himself!
100
The name of the first car radio.
What is a Motorola?
100
Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, and this third person - co-found apple in 1976.
Who is Ronald Wayne?
He relinquished his stock for US$800 2 weeks after the company was created.
100
A doctrine that provides exception to copyright law.
What is Fair Use?
200
According the the Oxford English Dictionary “GIF” is pronounced this way.
What is either gif or jif?
Though according to its inventor Steve Wilhite it is only jif.
200
The NMC Horizon Report was started in this year.
What is 2002?
200
Coleco, most famous for the Cabbage Patch Doll, Colecovision and Adam Computer was founded in 1932 as this.
What is the Connecticut Leather Company?
200
Called “the maestro without whom photography as we know wouldn’t have been the same.” This man invented the photosensor grid used in almost all digital cameras.
Who is Bryce Bayer?
200
3D Printing has become a catch-all term for this specific kind of manufacturing.
What is additive manufacturing?
300
XML
What is the Extensible Markup Language?
Created in 1996
300
The multimedia Authoring tool Pachyderm was started at this institution.
What is the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art?
300
The virtual currency used in Second Life.
What is the Linden Dollar?
300
Jim Ellis and Tom Truscott invented this once popular form of communication in 1980.
What is Usenet?
300
The non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California - devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share.
What is Creative Commons?
400
MUD
What is a Multi-User Dungeon or Domain?
Not to be confused with MUSH - a Multi User Shared Hallucination or MOO which is MUD Object Oriented.
400
Founded in 2009, this pioneering program is aimed expressly at meeting the needs of art museums, university arts and museum education programs, and the professionals who serve them.
What is MIDEA?
400
Considered by most as the first “Killer App”.
What is VisiCalc?
In fact people first purchased the software and THEN the computer.
400
The educator who once said “Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.”
Who is John Dewey?
400
Tracking and analyzing one’s own personal activity data via technology.
What is the Quantified Self?
500
MIME
What is the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions?
500
The New Media Consortium was founded in this year.
What is 1993?
500
Featured on the cover of the January, 1975, issue of Popular Electronics, this computer is said to have sparked the microcomputer revolution.
What is the MITS Altair 8800?
500
She popularized the term “computer bug”, wrote the first compiler, and is attributed as saying ““The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.”
Who is Rear Admiral Grace Hopper?
500
The Statistical analysis of data related to learning.