Questions and Answers

Today we were given the task of using the net to answer some questions without using google or wikepedia. Here's what I came up with:

1. Who was the creator of the infamous "lovebug" computer virus? Onel de Guzman, 24, a computer school student. (cnn.com)
2. Who invented the paper clip? The first bent-wire paper clip was patented by Samuel B. Fay in 1867. (officemuseum.com)
3. How did the Ebola virus get its name? after the ebola river valley in africa. (emedicine.com)
4. What country had the largest recorded earthquake? Chile in 1960. (earthquake.usgs.gov)
5. In computer memory/storage terms, how many kilobytes in a terabyte? 1,073,741,824 kilobytes (t1shopper.com)
6. Who is the creator of email? ray tomlinson (openmap.bbn.com)
7. What is the storm worm, and how many computers are infected by it? a backdoor trojan that targets the windows operating system. it's hard to tell how many comp's are infected. there could be millions. (washingtonpost.com).
8. If you wanted to contact the prime minister of australia directly, what is the most efficient way? Through written mail. E mail is too risky. (http://www.pm.gov.au/contact/index.cfm)
9. Which Brisbane-based punk band is Stephen Stockwell (Head of the School of Arts) a member of? The black assassins. (http://www.blackassassins.net/)
10. What does the term "Web 2.0" mean in your own words? internet activity where user to user communication or contact is the main goal. examples are wikepedia, myspace, and facebook. It is different from the previous web in that any user can put things up on the web in web 2.0. (http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html)


Are these sources accurate? For some of the smaller sites and ".com" sites, the information gathered could be questionable because they aren't backed by large corporations or educational facilities that would have many researchers at their disposal. Some of my sites that could possibly be faulty could be "officemuseum.com" or "openmap.bbn.com". The other sites that are government backed or educational institutionally backed would probably have valid information. Other sites like "http://www.blackassassins.net/" where the website is officially backed by the subject would also likely have valid information.