Disks that can store amounts of data equal to 500 floppy disks and require a CD-ROM drive.
What is a CD-ROM?
100
An irresponsible or unethical individual who develops ways of breaking codes and getting into classified files threatening personal and national security.
Who is a hacker?
100
A a photo, document, or link sent along with your e-mail message
What is an attachment?
100
Byte or Kilobyte
What is Kilobyte?
100
A single letter, like "A"
What is a Byte?
200
Storage device that has seven times the storage capacity of CD-ROMs without taking up any more space.
What is DVD?
200
A hardware peripheral used to link a computer to telephone lines so that it can communicate with other computers.
What is a modem?
200
Digital communication with the fastest response time.
What is chat?
200
Kilobyte or Megabyte
What is Megabyte?
200
A 14 line e-mail. Lengthy paragraph of text.
What is a Kilobyte?
300
A device that can read text or illustrations and transmit them in a digitized format to the computer.
What is a scanner?
300
A storage device that can hold huge amounts of information; size of the hard disk drive determines the price of the computer.
What is Hard Drive?
300
A program that illegally copies itself into other computers
What is a virus?
300
Megabyte or Gigabyte
What is Gigabyte?
300
A good sized novel
What is a Megabyte?
400
Computer memory on which data has been prerecorded; permanently stores critical programs, like those needed for system start-up.
What is ROM (Read Only Memory)?
400
Type of system or operating software that uses icons to represent programs, files and common operations; it makes working with the computer simpler; an example is Windows.
What is Graphic User Interface?
400
A universal file type for photographs / images.
What is JPG?
400
Terrabyte or Gigabyte
What is Terrabyte?
400
About 40 minutes of video.
What is Gigabyte?
500
Computer and communications network that covers a lmited geographic area
What is Local Area Network (LAN)
500
A computer network using leased lines from telephone company vendors over a wide geographical area.
What is Wide Area Network? (WAN)
500
A universal file type for documents. Good to use for attaching documents to e-mail.