Digital Preservation Tutorial: Media Quiz

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1.	Who was the first world leader to send an email? Answer: Queen Elizabeth II Your Answer: Remember, according to biased reporting, Al Gore invented the Internet! We were unable to confirm that Margaret Thatcher ever used email.
2.	When did libraries first adopt MAchine Readable Cataloging (MARC) for creating library records? Answer: 1968 Your Answer: 1968 was quite early in the development of computer encoding, and is the same year that the current version of ASCII was formalized.
3.	Which image format was introduced first? Answer: TIFF Your Answer: TIFF was the first image format, and still remains the archival standard.
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 fiancÃ©e."
5.	In 1993, CERN released the World Wide Web into the public domain. What were some of the early Web browsers? (check all that apply) Answer: Cello, Lynx, and Mosaic Your Answer: Veronica was a search engine for the earlier Gopher system, while Archie was software for searching FTP sites.
6.	Which was the first commercial video game? Answer: Pong Your Answer: You can play an emulated game of pong online here: http://www.stevelange.net/flash/pong02.swf
7.	What is Java? Answer: Both Your Answer: "The origin of the name "Java" is kind of a funny story. While the people at Sun Microsystems were developing their new language, "Oak", they found out that some other programmers happened to be creating a programming language that was also called Oak. So they decided to change the name, but first they wanted to take a break. Someone drank some coffee, came back into the room, and suggested the name Java. The name has stuck ever since." From: http://www.duke.edu/~trc7/cps/background/what_is_java.html
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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