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Part A provides information about personal computers released in 1977 (Commodore Pet, Apple II, TRS80), the first non-kit PC developed in 1973 (The Micral), and an important data storage medium released in 1983 (The Bernoulli Box and the CD-Rom). Part B discusses BITNET, one of the Internet's predecessors which stood for "Because It's Time NETwork" and was launched in 1981, the Code Red worm that struck the Internet in 2001, and how you could order pizza from Pizza the Hut through the Internet in 1994.

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Lab 1

Part A provides information about personal computers released in 1977 (Commodore Pet, Apple II, TRS80), the first non-kit PC developed in 1973 (The Micral), and an important data storage medium released in 1983 (The Bernoulli Box and the CD-Rom). Part B discusses BITNET, one of the Internet's predecessors which stood for "Because It's Time NETwork" and was launched in 1981, the Code Red worm that struck the Internet in 2001, and how you could order pizza from Pizza the Hut through the Internet in 1994.

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Part A a. Which three PCs were released in 1977? Comodore Pet Apple II TRS80 b.

What was the first non-kit PC developed in 1973? The Micral c. What important data storage medium was released in 1983?

The Bernoulli Box and the CD-Rom


d. What does ASCII stand for, and in what year did it come out? American Standard Code for Information Interchange and development started in 10/09/1960. First release in 1963 e. What was the name of the first fully transistorized computer developed in 1955? TRADIC f. What input and output devices were used by the Manchester Mark I computer?

Input was by key switches, and the output was displayed as a series of dots and dashes on a cathode ray tube
g. In what year was the World Wide Web born via the development of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), and who developed HTML? In 1996 and HTML was developed by Tim Berners-Lee Part B a. BITNET, one of the predecessors of the Internet was launched in 1981. What does BITNET stand for?

Because It's Time NETwork


b. What worm struck the Internet in 2001? Code Red c. What food could you order through the Internet in 1994? Pizza from the Hut d. What famous person sent an e-mail in 1976?

Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom


e. What country offered Internet voting for local elections in 2005?

The stoners from Stonia f. In 2008 what kind of network did NASA test?

Deep space communications network

Describe in a word document the differences between the windows

desktop and the GNOME desktop. (10 points)


The biggest difference between Windows and Gnome: Well Gnome runs on a Linux kernel and Windows runs on the Windows environment. A nix environment is more secure than Windows, as security patches and vulnerabilities are issued on a 0-day for nix variants compared to Windows as it has to virtually create a service pack, to update the majority of the biggest exploits and vulnerabilities. Windows does deliver them as they are discovered but they typically take longer than 1 day to reach the consumers.
Also Gnome is a shell for Linux, while windows is its own environment, no longer a Dos shell

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