ICT Evolution

Question 1

this period served as the bridge between our current period and the premechanical period. It was this time that the interest in automating and speeding up numerical calculations grew.

Answer 1

Mechanical Period (1450-1840)

Question 2

The highlight of the mechanical period is the
advent of the mechanical calculator
called _____

Answer 2

pascaline

Question 3

who invented pascaline?

Answer 3

BLAISE PASCAL along with WILHELM

SCHICKARD

Question 4

who was the first computer programmer

Answer 4

Lady Ada Augusta Byron Lovelace

Question 5

what considered to be the first programmable mechanical calculator.

Answer 5

Analytical Engine

Question 6

who invented the Analytical Engine

Answer 6

Charles Babbage

Question 7

This period ushered the new age in communications and information. The use of electricity for information handling and transfer bloomed.

Answer 7

Electromechanical Period (1840-1940)

Question 8

period where humans started communicating using words and pictograms carved in rocks. Then they started to write symbols as substitute for pictures to depict ideas, objects and animals which gave rise to our modern alphabet.

Answer 8

Premechanical Period (3000 BCE - 1450 CE)

Question 9

The birth of paper produced from _______

Answer 9

papyrus plant

Question 10

what were the first data centers in history, due to compiled records written on pieces of paper that are bounded together.

Answer 10

libraries

Question 11

a simpler, faster, and more organized way to count

Answer 11

numerical system

Question 12

A calculation tool performs addition and subtraction, often constructed as a wooden frame with beads sliding on wires.

Answer 12

abacus

Question 13

the abacus was known to have existed in _____ and _____

Answer 13

Babylonia and China

Question 14

this period concentrated primarily on the development of machines that will enhance calculation speed

Answer 14

mechanical period

Question 15

considered the first electrical communications device and the first device to use electricity to transmit information over an electrical media.

Answer 15

telegraph

Question 16

what enables voice transmission over long distances?

Answer 16

telephone

Question 17

In 1844, Samuel Morse successfully introduced the first single-circuit telegraph, which gave rise to ______

Answer 17

morse code

Question 18

what converts sounds into electricity and enables its network to transmit over copper wires?

Answer 18

telephone

Question 19

who invented the telephone

Answer 19

Alexander Graham Bell in 1876

Question 20

4 main events in electronic period

Answer 20

late vacuum tubes period,
transistors period,
integrated circuits period,
computer processors period

Question 21

An electronic device with properties and functions similar to vacuum tube, but lightweight and faster. The foundation of every electronic device today.

Answer 21

transistor

Question 22

A device composed of a group of transistors and circuit elements compressed in a single package.

Answer 22

Integrated Circuit (IC)

Question 23

meaning of ENIAC

Answer 23

Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer

Question 24

The highlight of the electronic period is focused on the advent of ______

Answer 24

electronic devices

Question 25

meaning of GUI

Answer 25

Graphical User Interface

Question 26

Also called “calculating clock”

Answer 26

Mechanical Calculator

Question 27

meaning of UNIVAC

Answer 27

Universal Automatic Computer

Question 28

a person born or brought up during the age of digital technology and therefore familiar with computers and the internet from an early age.

Answer 28

digital native

Question 29

who is the “Father of Modern Computer”

Answer 29

Charles Babbage

Question 30

who invented the telegraph

Answer 30

WILLIAM COOKE and SIR CHARLES

WHEATSTONE in 1837