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Who was the first world leader to send an email? |
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When did libraries first adopt MAchine Readable Cataloging (MARC) for creating library records? |
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Which image format was introduced first? |
4. | The Enigma machine was manufactured in 1923, capable of transcribing coded information. Who starred in this 2001 movie of the same name? Answer: Kate Winslet Your Answer: "During the dark early days of World War II, the Nazis change the Enigma Code that commandeers their U-boat fleet -- and it's up to Tom Jericho (Dougray Scott), a brilliant code-breaker, to crack the new encryption...Kate Winslet co-stars, along with Saffron Burrows as Jericho's mysteriously missing fiancée." |
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In 1993, CERN released the World Wide Web into the public domain. What were some of the early Web browsers? (check all that apply) |
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Which was the first commercial video game? |
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What is Java? |
8. | Check the following definitions that correspond to the term METS. Answer: An XML standard for encoding metadata within a digital library AND A baseball team in NYC Your Answer: The difference between the baseball team and the XML schema, is that the former is in the cellar and the latter is in the ascendancy. |
9. | What was the first computer bug? Answer: A moth Your Answer: Computer scientist Grace Hopper found the first computer “bug” in 1945. A moth had been caught in the circuitry of the Mark II computer system at Harvard. The term “bug” had been used before this to describe system errors, but until this point no actual insects had been implicated. |
10. | What was the first commercially successful word processing software? Answer: WordStar Your Answer: In 1979, WordStar software became the first commercially successful word processor. The very first computer word processors were line editors, software-writing aids that allowed a programmer to make changes in a line of program code. In the early days of personal computing, dozens of word processors competed for dominance. |
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