Scavenger Hunt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1. Who was the creator of the infamous "lovebug" computer virus?

Onel de Guzman

2. Who invented the paper clip?

Johaan Valer

3. How did the Ebola virus get its name?

Ebola River

4. What country had the largest recorded earthquake?

Chile

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

1,073,741,824

6. Who is the creator of email?

Ray Tomlinson

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

Trojan virus working against Windows.

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?

The Black Assasains

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

A more effective and proficient way of using the web and networking.






-Search engines rank the stuff they find on the internet by judging the quality of the website and the popularity of it. For instance if one were to search "file sharing," a more popular than non-popular file sharing website would come up. By making your search very title specific you can get a more accurate result of what you are trying to find. Using quotations in your search and minimizing the amount of unnecessary words plays a key role in reducing non-useful information. Athough I find wikipedia and google to be the best tools, search engines such as Yahoo and AskJeeves work well also. Whenever possible, it can be a great help to use actual library databases to find scholarly articles for much more specific and in-depth research.