Technology Vocabulary
Internet and Games
Acronyms
How to Use a Computer
Technology Milestones
100
Using computers to gain unauthorized access to data in a system.
What is hacking?
100
This music video has more than 2.5 billion views, making it the most viewed video on YouTube since November 2012.
What is Gangnam Style?
100
This is the actual full name for WWW.
What is World Wide Web?
100
The blinking line that indicates where you type or the arrow that shows the mouse pointer on the computer screen.
What is cursor?
100
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) used these reusable spacecrafts for 30 years in 135 space missions.
What are the Space Shuttles?
200
A small remotely controlled aircraft that is like a helicopter with four rotors.
What is quadcopter?
200
This games has been downloaded more than 3 billion times, making it the most downloaded mobile game of all time since 2009.
What is Angry Birds?
200
This is the actual full name for FAQ.
What is Frequently Asked Questions?
200
The secret code to protect your data and can keep others from accessing your computer or online accounts.
What is password?
200
In 1996, Sergey Brin and Larry Page developed this search engine at Stanford University. It is the most popular search engine today.
What is Google?
300
It stands for picture element and it is the smallest unit of a digital image.
What is pixel?
300
This internet challenge has raised more than $100 million for the ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) Association in 2013 and 2014.
What is the Ice Bucket Challenge?
300
This is the actual full name for URL.
What is Uniform Resource Locator?
300
A small symbol or picture that represents a program or other things on the computer.
What is an icon?
300
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) of 1998 protects children's privacy and safety online including restrictions on the marketing to those under this number of years old.
What is 13?
400
The process of turning 3D designs into objects by adding layers of material on top of each other.
What is additive manufacturing?
400
This Internet Meme involves posting a photo of people lying face down sometimes in an unusual or out-of-place locations.
What is planking?
400
This is the actual full name for HTML.
What is Hyper-Text Markup Language?
400
The first page you see when you open your browser.
What is the homepage?
400
Apple released this device in 2010, reviving the tablet computer industry.
What is iPad?
500
The trading of products and services over the internet.
What is ecommerce?
500
This is the best-selling video game franchise of all time which sold more than 528 million copies of games since its first release in 1981.
What is Mario?
500
This is the actual full name for CGI.
What is Computer Generated Imagery.
500
This is an abbreviation for "sending particularly annoying messages". It stands for unwanted e-mail.
What is spam?
500
In 2011, this computer system won the Jeopardy! game against two former winners, taking “home” $1 million.
What is Watson?
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