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WorksheetsTechnology Innovations
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
When the Altair 8800 was made available, this future founder of Microsoft wrote a basic program that allowed the user to interact with the computer more easily.
Steve Jobs
Alan Turing
Bill Gates
Tim Berners-Lee
In 1971, the first internet, connected research facilities and military bases across the United States so that they could share files. It was called:
Phone lines
The Interweb
Skynet
Arpanet
Still alive today, this man invented a way to organize and link web pages together with a system of rules called hypertext transfer protocol (http) in 1989.
Tim Berners Lee
Steve Jobs
Mark Zuckerberg
Bill Gates
The three groups that had access to computers after World War II were...
corporations, schools, and the miltary
the military, corporations, and government
research facilities, homes
the military, government, and corpses
In 1642 a math genius developed this machine, which used a complex system of gears that made addition or subtraction of limitless numbers possible.
Abacus
Calculator
Pascaline
Napier's Bones
He designed the very first video game console allowed you to make your television interactive. You could play games like ping pong by controlling a simple square that moved across the screen with a joystick.
Bill Gates
Steve Wozniak
Charles Babbage
Ralph Baer
This device, the earliest computer, allowed for counting, addition and subtraction using a base 10 system. Users slid beads with assigned values up and down on rods.
Napier's Bones
Pascaline
Calculator
Abacus
This smart phone, developed in 2007, did away with buttons and allowed users to interact with applications using only their finger as an input device.
iPhone
Nokia
Simon
Samsung
During World War II, he developed a complex computer that could break the Enigma code. His ideas brought us into the Digital Age.
Steve Jobs
Bill Gates
Ralph Baer
Alan Turing
Any device that receives data (input), processes data, stores data, and produces a result (output).
abacus
analytical engine
computer
technology
digital
an improvement of an existing technology
number system that is base 2, using only bits 0 and 1, representing on/off or yes/no. This code is how computers record, store, and process data.
any computational device that uses electricity to transmit data using binary language
a number system developed by Robert Napier
a set of instructions given to the processor in a computer.
program
application
computer
file
the protocol (rules) and language that allows all users to develop, publish, and access web pages on the internet.
application
browser
search engine
World Wide Web
Technology
any computer, like a smart phone, desktop, or laptop
the application of what we know from science in order to innovate the world we live in.
basically, anything that people ever made
the study of computers and how they work
Internet
WWW, or the world wide web. It was invented by TIm Berners Lee in 1994.
a series of tubes through which we send information to one another
a program for searching for and accessing information
a global communication network that allows computers to connect to each other and share data with cables and wireless connections (wifi)
A number system that is base 2, using only bits 0 and 1, representing on/off or yes/no. This code is how computers record, store, and process data
metric
decimal
polynomial
binary
Data
Information, whether written, numerical, audio, or visual
Another word for a file
An improvement of an existing technology.
a series of numbers that computers use to communicate
Application
devices like a monitor, speakers, or headphones that can be used to experience output from a computer
the use of skills or resources in order to accomplish a task; also a program designed for users to accomplish a specific task, like word processing, image creation, or sound mixing.
a technique used by technologists to program a computer, or a form you fill out in order to get a job
an icon that you press on your phone screen that opens up a program
This person wrote the first computer program, and saw the potential for computers, stating that one day, they might be programmed to produce images and sound.
Amber Lovas
Ada Lovelace
Katherine Johnson
Leia Lovelace
An improvement of an existing technology.
version
innovation
model
prototype
