1) who created the ”lovebug” computer virus?
The lovebug virus was created in the year 2000 by Onel De Guzman
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3257165.stm
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0862203.html
http://www.nzlistener.com/default,2035.sm
2) Who invented the paperclip?
William D. Middlebrook in 1899 was the first to invent AND patent the paperclip although Johann Vaaler is claimed to have invented the paper clip in 1890.
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/paperclip.htm
http://wwlibrary.org/MAIN/Reference/refpre00.html
3) How did the ebola virus get its name?
the ebola virus was named after the river in africa where ebola was first recognised
http://ebola.emedtv.com/ebola-articles-a-to-z-page-6.html
http://www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us/History/Africa/04/burton/burton.htm
4) what country had the largest recorded earthquake?
Chile in 1960
http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question63269.html
http://www.extremescience.com/GreatestEarthquake.htm
5) In computer memory/storage terms, how many kilobytes in a terabyte?
there are 2^30 kilobytes in a terabyte
http://www.t1shopper.com/tools/calculate/
6) Who created e-mail?
In 1971 Ray Tomlinson developed the first email application
http://www.livinginternet.com/e/ei.htm
7. What is the storm worm, and how many computers are infected by it?The storm worm originated as an e-mail born computer virus which attaches a trojan horse to the recipients computer . The number of infected computers is not known but it is estimated in the millions.
http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/storm.asp
8. If you wanted to contact the prime minister of australia directly,
what is the most efficient way?
using this website: http://www.pm.gov.au/contact/index.cfm to e-mail him and his staff, this method is faster than using his postal address and leaves a record of contact being made whilst conversation in person or via the telephone would not.
http://www.pm.gov.au/contact/index.cfm
9)9. Which Brisbane-based punk band is Stephen Stockwell (Head of the School
of Arts) a member of?
The Black Assasins
http://www.griffith.edu.au/school/art/staff/stockwell.htm
10) In your own words what is web 2.0?
Web 2.0 is an internet “revolution” where users of the internet have the power to manipulate webpages. Creativity is more of a component of today’s internet. In short.. the internet is now more user friendly.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html
http://germworks.net/blog/2007/02/11/web-jargon-explained/
Search Engines used:
ask jeeves.com
yahoo.com
1) How do search engines rank stuff?
Search engines follow a set of rules called an algorithm. One factor contributing to the ranking is the frequency and location of key words on the web page, those with the key words located closer to the top are seen to be more relevant. They also find pages with the keywords in the html tag more relevant.
http://searchenginewatch.com/showpage.html?page=2167961
2) What makes a page appear at the top of the search list?
As stated before it is because of the frequency of keywords that appear in the text, (and to the top of the text) and especially the html tag, which give a page top position in the list.
3) My Favourite search engine would have to be google. I like its simple layout and its comparitively small amount of adds. I guess it is just familiar to me as that is the search engine we were taught to use in primary school.
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