Tech History
Tech
BB & SS
Towson Facts
100
A mobile operating system, acquired by Google in 2005, powers the majority of smartphones worldwide.
What is Android?
100
This is referred to as the brain of a computer.
What is a CPU?
100
The amount of members on the eboards for both clubs.
What is 10?
100
The year Towson university was founded.
When was 1886?
200
The year the first computer was invented.
What is 1822?
200
The protocol used for secure communication over the internet.
What is HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure)?
200
Our clubs were created this year.
When is 2021?
200
This is the amount of majors offered here at Towson.
What is 110?
300
These people co-founded Microsoft and developed the Windows operating system.
Who are Bill Gates and Paul Allen?
300
A type of social engineering attack where someone attempts to trick a user into revealing sensitive information.
What is Phising?
300
This person is the founder of both of these clubs.
Who is Maliyah Baxter?
300
These 2 halls were named after the first 2 black graduates of Towson University.
What are Barnes and Harris Hall?
400
This device was the first commercially available personal computer with a graphical user interface and a mouse.
What is the Apple Macintosh?
400
This cloud computing service model provides users with access to hardware resources, such as servers, storage, and networking, on a pay-as-you-go basis.
What is Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)?
400
This event occured last semester, was a 2 day event and provided some students with scholarships.
What is the NextGen Cyber Event?
400
This is the original name of Towson University when it was first founded.
What is the Maryland State Normal School?
500
This person is considered the "father of modern computing" and the inventor of the stored-program computer.
Who is Alan Turing?
500
Introduced by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, this invention revolutionized global communication by allowing the sharing of hypertext documents across different computers.
What is the World Wide Web?
500
This was an event held by Sister Scripters in 2021 that was in conjunction with the CIS Department and the Career Center.
What is the CIS Speed Networking Event?
500
This comedic actress is notably known to be the most famous person to attend Towson University.
Who is Amy Shumer?