Bill Slater's
Internet Research Questions and Exercises
Copyright 1997 by William F. Slater, III
For my Internet students and friends:
Rules:
URL |
Comments |
| http://www.yahoo.com | Yahoo! |
| http://www.altavista.digital.com | Alta Vista |
| http://www.lycos.com | Lycos |
| http://www.webcrawler.com | WebCrawler |
| http://rs.internic.net/cgi-bin/whois | InterNIC Whois Facility |
Internet Questions and Exercises
Question or Exercise |
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| How tall is the Sears Tower? | |||
| Where are the Petronas Towers and how tall are they? | |||
| What is the URL of Gateway 2000 Computers? | |||
| What is the URL of Aerial Communications? What is the IP address? | |||
| What year did Bill Slater start in the computing profession? | |||
| What is Randall Schwartz’s two claims to fame regarding the computer industry? (one is positive, one is negative) | technoculture.mira.net.au/ hypermail/0050.html |
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| What were the final words transmitted to NASA Mission Control by Space Shuttle Pilot Michael Smith during the ill-fated flight of STS-51L (Challenger) on January 28, 1986? | |||
| Which significant technology accomplishment (from 1942) of Hedy Lamarr recently came to light in the media? | |||
| Who wrote The Adolescence of P-1 and when? | Ryan, 1977 | www.freenet.victoria.bc.ca/ techrev/bkadolp1.rvw |
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| Where was President Warren G. Harding when he died? | |||
| What is the significance of "Wolfpack Technology"? | |||
| Who is Andreas Vollenweider? What is the name of his newest CD which is being released in Europe in March 1997? | |||
| What is the speed of the new U.S. Robotics X2 technology modems? | |||
| What is PGP and who first developed it? | |||
| When was Frederick Douglas born and what was his claim to fame? | |||
| What is the URL of the City of Chicago? | |||
| What is the URL and IP address of Microsoft’s web site? | |||
| What is the URL of the White House? IP address? | |||
| What is the URL of the Library of Congress? | |||
| Who were the stars in the movie named "1943"? | |||
| In what was the year of the final battle of the War of 1812 fought? | |||
| Name the only U.S. President from NH. | |||
| Who were the stars of the movie Bull Durham? | |||
| Who is Furry Lewis and what is his claim to fame? Where did he live? | |||
| What was Elvis Presley’s weight when he died? | |||
| Where is Mount Washington? What is its height? And what is the highest recorded wind velocity at Mt. Washington’s summit? | www.mountwashington.org | ||
| How many transistors are on the Intel Pentium Pro microprocessor? | |||
| What is the IP address of www.xsite.net? | |||
| What is a typical price of 32 MB of EDO RAM? | |||
| What is the typical price of a 4GB SCSI hard drive? | |||
| What is the typical price of Windows NT Workstation 4.0 - Upgrade Edition? | |||
| What is the URL of the Electronic Frontier Foundation? | |||
| Who is the Senior Vice President of Internet Architecture at MCI and what is his claim to fame (hint: it’s something he co-developed) | |||
| Counting from the bottom, what is the name of layer 3 in the OSI network model? What is the URL where you found this information? | |||
| What is the URL of the Earhart Project? | |||
| Go to conspiracy.net at www.warwick.ac.uk/ ~aeram/conspir.htm and list the conspiracy theory which you think is the funniest. |
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| Go to www.mapquest.com and have the mapping software draw a map of where you live. |
Last Updated on September 6, 1998
By Bill Slater
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