Week 4 Questions

1. What did Alan Turing wear while riding his bicycle around Bletchley Park?
Hahaha: I pasted this question directly into dogpile and got a page of links to New Communications students blogs. This course is obviously creating a web presence. I assume I shouldn't take their answers even though I found them online.

After sifting through the links to blogs I found a link to:
http://www.historyarticles.com/enigma.htm
A gas mask.

2. On what date did two computers first communicate with each other? Where were they?
I'm not sure if this is right because it's two router-linked computers - I don't know if they communicated in some other way before then.
"To those who claim that the Internet and the World Wide Web are synonymous, then the Internet/Web was born on April 30, 1993, when the scientists at CERN declared that Web technology, including the Mosaic browser, would be freely available to everyone, with no fees being payable to CERN."
OR
"On Oct. 20, 1969, the refrigerator-sized Interface Message Processor, which worked as the world's first packet-switching router, communicated with a computer at UCLA, seven weeks after they were first connected."
Both found with http://www.altavista.com/

3. What is Bill Gates’ birthday and what age was he when he sold his first software?
DOB: October 28, 1955.
Found with ask.com

4. Where was the World Wide Web invented?
the CERN nuclear physics research facility in Switzerland.
ask.com

5. How does the power of the computer you are working on now compare with the power of a personal computer from 30 years ago?


6. What is the weight of the largest parsnip ever grown?
8 lb 6 oz
ask.com

7. When did Queensland become a state and why is the Tweed River in New South Wales?
June 6 1859 http://www.about-australia.com/facts/queensland/history/

8. What was the weather like in south-east Queensland on 17 November 1954?


9. Why is is Lord Byron still remembered in Venice?
Lord Byron is still remembered in Venice for his active role in the revolution at hand and many of his famous works were on or inspired by Venice itself. http://www.nndb.com/people/856/000024784/

10. What band did Sirhan Chapman play in and what is his real name?
The Black Assassins and Stephen Stockwell – the convenor for this course.