Tute 4 Questions

1. Who was the creator of the infamous "lovebug" computer virus?
Onel de Guzman, 24, a computer school student, This is off a credible news web page. CNN http://archives.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/29/philippines.lovebug.02/index.html

2. Who invented the paper clip?
Johan Vaaler, a Norwegian inventor, invented the paperclip in 1899.
http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/287063 There were many answers on this page with the same information.

3. How did the Ebola virus get its name?
It takes its name from the Ebola River in northern Congo (Zaire), where it first emerged in 1976. Its from Britannica Concise Encyclopedia. http://www.answers.com/topic/ebola?cat=health

4. What country had the largest recorded earthquake?
Chile, it was 9.5 http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/world/10_largest_world.php , Its information is from the USGS national earthquake centre

5. In computer memory/storage terms, how many kilobytes in a terabyte?
1 Terabyte = 1073741824 Kilobytes
http://www.calculateme.com/ComputerStorage/index.htm ,Its a calculating web site

6. Who is the creator of email?
Ray Tomlinson is credited with inventing email in 1972. http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/email.html It has alot of information on email and the Internet.

7. What is the storm worm, and how many computers are infected by it?
its an e-mail worm which is a virus and has infected close to 10 million PCs http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/10/the_storm_worm_maelstrom_or_te.html?nav=rss_blog its from a newspaper.

8. If you wanted to contact the prime minister of australia directly, what is the most efficient way?
Contact him through this web site via e-mail . http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/page3.asp Its a government site.

9. Which Brisbane-based punk band is Stephen Stockwell (Head of the School of Arts) a member of?
Stephen plays keyboard for Brisbane punk band, the Black Assassins, http://www.griffith.edu.au/school/art/staff/stockwell.htm Its a university web page.

10. What does the term "Web 2.0" mean in your own words?
Web 2.0 is the Internet these days were you can interact with the web pages and click on certain objects and buy things online. Its the new version of the web to what it was 10 years ago were we just read the information and that was all.