Who was the first world leader to send an email?
- Al Gore
- Queen Elizabeth II
- Margaret Thatcher
Remember, according to biased reporting, Al Gore invented the Internet! We were unable to confirm that Margaret Thatcher ever used email.
When did libraries first adopt MAchine Readable Cataloging (MARC) for creating library records?
1968 was quite early in the development of computer encoding, and is the same year that the current version of ASCII was formalized.
Which image format was introduced first?
TIFF was the first image format, and still remains the archival standard.
The Enigma machine was manufactured in 1923, capable of transcribing coded information. Who starred in this 2001 movie of the same name?
- Madonna
- Drew Barrymore
- Kate Winslet
From Netflix: "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..."
In 1993, CERN released the World Wide Web into the public domain. What were some of the early Web browsers? (check all that apply)
- Archie
- Cello
- Lynx
- Mosaic
- Veronica
Veronica was a search engine for the earlier Gopher system, while Archie was software for searching FTP sites.
Which was the first commercial video game?
- Pong
- PacMan
- Super Mario Brothers
What is Java?
- An object oriented programming language
- A cup of coffee
- Both
"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
Check the following definitions that correspond to the term METS.
- An XML standard for encoding metadata within a digital library
- A baseball team in NYC
- A transfer protocol adopted by the W3C
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.
What was the first computer bug?
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.
What was the first commercially successful word processing software?
- EasyWriter
- WordStar
- MS Word
- WordPerfect
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.
