TUTE TASK FOUR

1. Who was the creator of the infamous "love bug" computer virus?
Onel de Guzman, 24, a computer school student
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/29/philippines.lovebug.02/index.html

2. Who invented the paper clip?
The modern paper clip was patented on November 9, 1899 to William D.
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/paperclip.htm

http://www.edinformatics.com/inventions_inventors/paper_clip.htm
3. How did the Ebola virus get its name?
Ebola virus got its name from a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Africa, where it was first recognized.
http://ebola.emedtv.com/ebola-virus/ebola-virus.html

4. What country had the largest recorded earthquake?
In may 22, 1960 Chile recorded the worlds largest earthquake.
http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/largest7.html

5. In computer memory/storage terms, how many kilobytes in a terabyte?
There are 1024 bytes in kilobyte, 1024 kilobytes in a megabyte, 1024 megabytes in a gigabyte and 1024 gigabytes in a terabyte.
http://www.sonoma.edu/users/c/carusor/web219/hardware_terms.htm

6. Who is the creator of email?
Ray Tomlinson gave society one of the greatest communication tools in history. He invented email back in 1971
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/entdev/article.php/1408411

7. What is the storm worm and how many computers are infected by it? The storm worm is a computer virus, it effected as many as 5 million computers.
https://learning.griffith.edu.au/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab=courses&url=/bin/common/course.pl?course_id=_55255_1&frame=top

8. If you wanted to contact the prime minister of Australia directly, what is the most efficient way?
Email

9. Which Brisbane-based punk band is Stephen Stockwell (Head of the School of Arts) a member of?
Black Assassins

10. What does the term "Web 2.0" mean in your own words?
Web 2.0 means a second generation service that allows people to share information on the Web; an example of a site that does this is Wikipedia.
https://learning.griffith.edu.au/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab=courses&url=/bin/common/course.pl?course_id=_55255_1&frame=top