History Flashcards
History of IT and Computers
1
Q
Who is known as the ‘Father of the Computer’?
A
Charles Babbage
2
Q
Who is recognized as the ‘First Computer Programmer’?
A
Ada Lovelace
3
Q
Who is referred to as the ‘Father of Artificial Intelligence’?
A
Alan Turing
4
Q
What is the first general-purpose computer?
A
ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer)
5
Q
What was the predecessor of the internet?
A
ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network)
6
Q
Who invented the World Wide Web?
A
Tim Berners-Lee
7
Q
What is Moore’s Law?
A
Prediction that computer processing power doubles approximately every two years
8
Q
What was the first programming language?
A
Assembly language
9
Q
What was the first commercially available computer?
A
UNIVAC I (Universal Automatic Computer I)
10
Q
What was the first graphical web browser?
A
Mosaic
