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Ok Guys I have this internet scavenger hunt for my computer class. where can I have the website that has the answers for these questions or what are the answers to them?

1- What is a dingbat?


2- What is a home page?


3- What was ENIAC?


4- What contribution did Ada Byron make to computing?


5- What is a byte? How many nibbles are in a byte?


6- In what year was the first World-Wide Web software created by Tim Berners-Lee?



7- What is an advantage of the Dvorak keyboard?



8- What does GUI (pronounced "goo-ey") mean?



9- Name three computer peripherals.



10- What is a USB flash drive?

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Ok Guys I have this internet scavenger hunt for my computer class. where can I have the website that has the answers for these questions or what are the answers to them?

1- What is a dingbat?

In typography, a dingbat is an ornament, character, or spacer used in typesetting, often employed for the creation of box frames.

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2- What is a home page?

the introductory page of a website, typically serving as a table of contents for the site.

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3- What was ENIAC?

the first electronic general-purpose digital computer. It was Turing-complete, and able to solve "a large class of numerical problems" through reprogramming

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4- What contribution did Ada Byron make to computing?

wrote the world's first machine algorithm for an early computing machine that existed only on paper

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5- What is a byte? How many nibbles are in a byte?

A byte is a group of binary digits or bits (usually eight) operated on as a unit. 2 nibbles

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6- In what year was the first World-Wide Web software created by Tim Berners-Lee?

1989

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7- What is an advantage of the Dvorak keyboard?

rearranges the keys on the keyboard so that the highest frequency keys are located on the home row, with lower frequency keys on the other rows.

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8- What does GUI (pronounced "goo-ey") mean?

Graphical User Interface

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9- Name three computer peripherals.

Input devices, Output devices, and Storage devices

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10- What is a USB flash drive?

They are often used for storage, data back-up and transfer of computer files. Compared with floppy disks or CDs, they are smaller, faster, have significantly more capacity, and are more durable due to a lack of moving parts.

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