Computer History Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 3. This is the "brain" of your computer. Everything that happens in your computer has to go through this piece of hardware.
- 7. These are the earliest modern photographs, invented by Charles Daguerre in 1839. It could take anywhere from half a minute to several hours to take one of these.
- 9. This was the earliest version of the internet, and originally connected university computers at UCLA to Stanford in 1969.
- 10. This is a tiny switch that functions as a logic gate. Early ones were made with vacuum tubes, but now your computer has billions of them!
- 12. This is the code made of zeroes and ones that all computers use.
- 15. This Sumerian devices for adding and subtracting was invented almost 5,000 years ago!
- 16. This was the earliest device for recording and playing back sound. Modern ones are called record players.
Down
- 1. This man decoded German Enigma messages during WWII and is considered the father of artificial intelligence.
- 2. This is the same thing as a computer chip, and it connects whole networks of transistors.
- 3. He invented the first computer, the Analytical Engine, in 1837.
- 4. This is the opposite of software and refers to all the physical parts of your computer
- 5. This is the "heart" of your computer. It allows all the parts of your computer to communicate with each other.
- 6. This was the first color movie. It follows a girl from Kansas who is transported to a magical land full of witches and talking animals.
- 8. This is "thinking space" for your computer to run programs on. It can fit a lot of data on it at a time, but doesn't save anything when you shut the computer down.
- 10. This Pixar film was the first movie to be fully animated with CGI.
- 11. She wrote the first computer programs and was the first person to realize that computers could be used for things other than math.
- 13. This is the spinning disk that stores all your data on most high-performing computers.
- 14. This is the word for how many times a camera records a picture every second, or how often the screen on a video game refreshes.