Tech Terms
Software
Hardware
Web 2.0(?)
Programs
100
An electronic signal that is either on or off and represented by a 1 or 0.
What is a bit.
100

The name of two different operating systems.

What are Windows and Mac.

100
The part of the hardware of your computer that stores all your programs and files.
What is the hard drive.
100
A way of sending messages from one computer to another.
What is e-mail.
100
The program you would use to create a document like a letter or report.
What is Word.
200
The address on a website located on the world wide web.
What is URL or Uniform Resource Locator.
200

A multi-user, multitasking operating system designed for programmers.

What is UNIX

200
The piece of computer hardware that is the brains of the computer.
What is the CPU or processor.
200
A website usually maintained by an individual with regular entries.
What is a blog.
200

ByteDance is a Chinese internet technology company headquartered in Beijing that is most famously the owner of what mega-popular social media platform.

What is TikTok

300
Receiving information from another person's computer over a network and saving it on your own hard drive.
What is download.
300

The on-demand availability of computing resources (such as storage and infrastructure), as services over the internet.

What is Cloud Computing

300


The short term memory of the computer.

What is RAM

300
The name of the web 2.0 program we used to create our wordle.
What is etherpad.
300

A collection of web pages designed to let anyone who accesses it to modify or contribute content.

What is Wikipedia.

400

A divide-and-conquer algorithm that was invented by John von Neumann in 1945.

What is Merge Sort

400

The typical four-letter word that is occasionally referred to as "Whole Home" Wi-Fi which leverages a main router and a series of nodes placed around a home for full coverage.

What is Mesh Wi-Fi

400

It allows you to connect your short-term memory device onto the motherboard.

What is Memory slots?

400
The name of the program we logged in to with our own username and password to upload our avatar slide.
What is student google docs.
400

Which Microsoft product replaced Lotus 1-2-3 as the industry standard for spreadsheets?

What is Excel

500

The process that kicks off a communication session that uses an encryption and authentication protocol designed to secure Internet communications.

What is a TSL Handshake

500

The first widely used high-level general purpose language, invented in 1954 at IBM by John Backus.

What is FORTRAN

500

A silicon chip that includes various devices such as transistors and wires. This is also what a motherboard is.

What is an Integrated Circuit?

500
The perceived second generation of web development and design that includes social networking sites and, video sharing site, wikis and blogs.
What is web 2.0.
500

The branded software standard created by Apple that enables a car radio or touchscreen to be a display and a controller for an iOS device.

What is CarPlay

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