Scavenger Hunt

PART 1.

1. Who was the creator of the infamous "lovebug" computer virus?

Tuesday, May 9, 2000. Reomel Ramones along with his girlfriend Irene de Guzman was arrested in Manila suspected of links to the "ILOVEYOU" virus. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/741704.stm

June 29, 2000. Onel de Guzman, admitted writing the virus known as "love bug".http://archives.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/29/philippines.lovebug.02/index.html

2. Who invented the paper clip?

Norwegian Johan Vaaler was the inventor of the paper clip, before this string was used to bind documents. http://ask.yahoo.com/20031120.html

The paper clip was patented on November 9, 1899 to William D. Middlebrook. http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/paperclip.htm

3. How did the Ebola virus get its name?

Ebola virus was named after an African river in the Congo where it was first discovered. http://ebola.emedtv.com/ebola-articles-a-to-z-page-6.html

“The Ebola virus, named for a river near the place of its first outbreak.” http://www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us/History/Africa/04/burton/burton.htm

4. What country had the largest recorded earthquake?

Chile – Magnitude 9.5 in 1960. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/world/10_largest_world.php

5. In computer memory/storage terms, how many kilobytes in a terabyte?

1 terabyte = 1 073 741 824 kilobytes. http://www.ask.com/web?qsrc=2417&o=0&l=dir&q=how+many+kilobytes+in+a+terabyte

6. Who is the creator of email?

Ray Tomlinson invented email in 1971. http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/entdev/article.php/1408411

7. What is the storm worm and how many computers are infected by it?

Storm worm spreads via email. http://antivirus.about.com/od/virusdescriptions/p/storm.htm

Some experts put the number close to 10 million, others between a few hundred thousand and a million. http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/10/the_storm_worm_maelstrom_or_te.html

8. If you wanted to contact the prime minister of Australia directly, what is the most efficient way?

A letter via Australia Post mail addressed to:
The Hon Kevin Rudd MP
Prime Minister Parliament House
CANBERRA ACT 2600
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 bands name was the Black Assassins. http://www.griffith.edu.au/school/art/staff/stockwell.htm

10. What does the term "Web 2.0" mean in your own words?

This is more user friendly version of networking (sharing) on the WWW, not needing knowledge on HTML. Users coming together eg sharing files, Wikipedia, etc.

“Web 2.0 - A term often applied to a perceived ongoing transition of the World Wide Web from a collection of websites to a full-fledged computing platform serving web applications to end users. It refers to a supposed second-generation of Internet-based services—such as social networking sites, wikis, communication tools, and folksonomies—that emphasize online collaboration and sharing among users.” http://www.2020systems.com/internet-ad-glossary-r-z.html

PART 2.

• How do search engines rank the stuff they find on the internet?
• Who, or what, makes one page (that you might get in your search results) more useful than another one, so that it is put at the top of your search results?
• What are some of your favourite search engines? why do you like one more than others?
  

I have been researching the best way to answer these question and found a site that I thought was very helpful. I was your standard google searcher but after this tutorial exercise I have few other search engines on my list. I hope others may find this link helpful.

http://www.monash.com/spidap4.html