Technology Innovations

When the Altair 8800 was made available, this future founder of Microsoft wrote a basic program that allowed the user to interact with the computer more easily.

• Steve Jobs

• Alan Turing

• Bill Gates

• Tim Berners-Lee

In 1971, the first internet, connected research facilities and military bases across the United States so that they could share files. It was called:

• Phone lines

• The Interweb

• Skynet

• Arpanet

Still alive today, this man invented a way to organize and link web pages together with a system of rules called hypertext transfer protocol (http) in 1989.

• Tim Berners Lee

• Steve Jobs

• Mark Zuckerberg

• Bill Gates

The three groups that had access to computers after World War II were...

• corporations, schools, and the miltary

• the military, corporations, and government

• research facilities, homes

• the military, government, and corpses

In 1642 a math genius developed this machine, which used a complex system of gears that made addition or subtraction of limitless numbers possible.

• Abacus

• Calculator

• Pascaline

• Napier's Bones

He designed the very first video game console allowed you to make your television interactive. You could play games like ping pong by controlling a simple square that moved across the screen with a joystick.

• Bill Gates

• Steve Wozniak

• Charles Babbage

• Ralph Baer

This device, the earliest computer, allowed for counting, addition and subtraction using a base 10 system. Users slid beads with assigned values up and down on rods.

• Napier's Bones

• Pascaline

• Calculator

• Abacus

This smart phone, developed in 2007, did away with buttons and allowed users to interact with applications using only their finger as an input device.

• iPhone

• Nokia

• Simon

• Samsung

During World War II, he developed a complex computer that could break the Enigma code. His ideas brought us into the Digital Age.

• Steve Jobs

• Bill Gates

• Ralph Baer

• Alan Turing

Any device that receives data (input), processes data, stores data, and produces a result (output).

• abacus

• analytical engine

• computer

• technology