Thursday, November 27, 2008

Discover Searching On the Internet 1 - Questions Session

1. Who was the creator of the infamous "lovebug" computer virus?
Onel De Guzman,http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061206122723AAObIMr

2. What is the world record for the largest watermelon?
The 268.8 Pound Watermelon, http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/largest101.html

3. How did the Ebola virus get its name?
Ebola-haemorrhagic fever (EHF), commonly known simply as Ebola- is a highly infectious viral desease, and one of the deadliest diseases to have emerged in recent decades. The first identified human case occured in Africa in 1976, near the Ebola River in the CONGO, and sporadic, localized outbreaks of the disease have since flared up in a number of countires in sub-saharan Africa., http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AgoCg1_ioJbGWv85yM7PSrwjzKIX;_ylv=3?qid=20081024153255AAZkjQ1

4. What country had the largest recorded earthquake?
The largest earthquake ever recorded was a M(w) 9.5 on May 22, 1960 in Chile. This occurred on a fault that is almost 1,000 miles (1600 kilometers) long. The earthquake ruptured along the entire length of the fault., http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AlaiAf7mfhipUXW9JaYUyJkjzKIX;_ylv=3?qid=1006030902322

5. In computer memory/storage terms, how many kilobytes in a terabyte?


  • 1 Byte = 8 bits
  • 1 Kilobyte = 1024 bytes
  • 1 Megabyte = 1024 Kilobytes = 1,048,576 bytes
  • 1 Gigabyte = 1024 Megabytes = 1,073,741,824 bytes
  • 1 Terabyte = 1024 Gigabytes = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes
  • 1 Terabyte = 1,073,741,824 Kilobytes

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AtHDUsWZv35wqb__NJXLe2UjzKIX;_ylv=3?qid=20070215111506AAXHZJq

6. Who is the creator of email?
Ray Tomlinson, 1971,http://au.encarta.msn.com/media_461532659/E-mail.html

7. What is the "storm worm", and how many computers are infected by it?


8. If you wanted to contact the prime minister of Australia directly, what would be the most efficient way?
The Australian Prime Minister's webpage, http://www.pm.gov.au/contact/index.cfm

9. Which Brisbane-based punk band is Stephen Stockwell (Head of the School of Arts) a member of?
Black Assassin,http://www.blackassassins.net/

10. What does the term "Web 2.0" mean in your own words? What are some examples?

  • The concept of "Web 2.0" began with a conference brainstorming session between O'Reilly and MediaLive International. Dale Dougherty, web pioneer and O'Reilly VP, noted that far from having "crashed", the web was more important than ever, with exciting new applications and sites popping up with surprising regularity. What's more, the companies that had survived the collapse seemed to have some things in common. Could it be that the dot-com collapse marked some kind of turning point for the web, such that a call to action such as "Web 2.0" might make sense? We agreed that it did, and so the Web 2.0 Conference was born.
  • In our initial brainstorming, we formulated our sense of Web 2.0 by example:

    Web 1.0 Web 2.0
    DoubleClick-->Google AdSense
    Ofoto-->Flickr
    Akamai-->BitTorrent
    mp3.com-->Napster
    Britannica Online-->Wikipedia
    personal websites-->blogging
    evite-->upcoming.org and EVDB
    domain name speculation-->search engine optimization
    page views-->cost per click
    screen scraping-->web services
    publishing-->participation
    content management systems-->wikis
    directories (taxonomy)-->tagging ("folksonomy")
    stickiness-->syndication

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html

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