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CLIL World 6: Unit 3, History of Computing
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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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Who created Wi-Fi technology?
Hedy Lamarr
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_________ is a way to transfer information from one digital device to another.
The Internet
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Herman Hollerith invented the __________.
tabulating machine
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Who invented the first electronic computer?
Alan Turing
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What made it possible to make smaller computers?
Integrated circuits and microprocessors
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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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What did the tabulating machine do?
It read, calculated, and summarised the information from many punched cards.
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When was the world's first electronic computer used?
During World War II, 1941
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What was the name of the first computer prototype, designed by Charles Babbage?
analytical engine
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Who is known as the first computer programmer in history?
Ada Lovelace
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________ were manual counting frames used to do simple math operations in Ancient History.
Abacuses
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Who did Ray Tomlinson send the first email to?
Himself!
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Joseph-Marie Jacquard invented punch cards that gave instructions to what kind of machine?
A loom
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How big were the first modern computers?
They were the size of a room!
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Today, computers are powered by ______.
electricity
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The binary system is....
the base of all computing systems.
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Babbage's computer used steam as ______________.
a power source
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What is this called?
microprocessor
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What is an example of a browser?
Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer
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What's another name for the Internet?
World Wide Web
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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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What did Alan Turing and his team do during WWII?
They broke codes used by the German military.
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Who invented the first adding machine?
Blaise Pascal
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Who created the first Internet protocol?
Tim Berners-Lee
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Charles Babbage designed the first computer that could _____________.
calculate faster than a human
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The information that leaves the computer for people to see is called _____.
output
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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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The information that enters the computer is called ______.
input
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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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When did Apple start making computers?
The 1970s
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True or False? Wi-Fi technology existed before the Internet.
True
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How did people connect to the Internet before Wi-Fi?
With a cable that connected to a special internet socket in the wall.
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