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CLIL World 6: Unit 3, History of Computing

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    Review for Unit 3, History of Computing
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  • What was the name of the first computer prototype, designed by Charles Babbage?
    analytical engine
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  • How did the first computer receive instructions?
    Through a punch card or holes made in a piece of card
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  • Who is known as the first computer programmer in history?
    Ada Lovelace
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  • Who created Wi-Fi technology?
    Hedy Lamarr
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  • Who created the first Internet protocol?
    Tim Berners-Lee
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  • True or False? Military and academic institutions had the technology to share information between their computers in the 1980s.
    True
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  • True or False? Wi-Fi technology existed before the Internet.
    True
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  • True or False? A router is a program that looks for and identifies items online based on key words.
    False
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  • A ________ is a program which allows you to look at and navigate between pages on the Internet.
    browser
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  • When was the world's first electronic computer used?
    During World War II, 1941
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  • _________ is a way to transfer information from one digital device to another.
    The Internet
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  • Who invented the first electronic computer?
    Alan Turing
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  • How did vacuum tubes change computers?
    They were much faster than electrical switches but consumed a lot of energy and took up a lot of space.
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  • ________ were manual counting frames used to do simple math operations in Ancient History.
    Abacuses
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  • Charles Babbage designed the first computer that could _____________.
    calculate faster than a human
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  • Babbage's computer used steam as ______________.
    a power source
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