week 4 scavanger hunt using search engines!!

I found the 3 first using a Norwegian search engine named www.kvasir.no

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

The lovebug virus was created by a phillipino school dropout named Onel de Guzman.

(http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20040209/login/main1.htm)

2. Who invented the paper clip?

The inventor of the paperclip was a genius Norwegian man named Johan Vaaler!! Woohoooo!!

(http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blpaperclip.htm)

3. How did the Ebola virus get its name?

There are different answers to this one it seems. Some say it comes from the Hantaan River in Korea, and some say a river in Africa. Some are even more specific and say it comes from the Ebloa River, which flow in Congo.

(http://ebola.emedtv.com/ebola-virus/the-ebola-virus.html)

The 3 next I found using http://search.aol.com/

4. What country had the largest recorded earthquake?

The largest earthquake ever recorded was in Chile on the 22^nd of May 1960.

It reached a magnitude of about 9.5 on the Richter’s scale.

(http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/world/10_largest_world.php)

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

There is about 1 billion kilobytes in a terabyte. Or to be more specific, there is about 1,073,741,824kb in a TB.

(http://www.t1shopper.com/tools/calculate/)

6. Who is the creator of email?

The creator of Email is Ray Tomlinson in 1971 actually! That’s a long time ago.

(http://www.forbes.com/asap/1998/1005/126.html)

The next two I found at www.dogpile.com

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

The Storm Worm is a computer virus launched in mid-January 2007. It contains some vicious Trojans and Systemfile “duplicates”.

(http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/storm.asp)

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

NO IDEA

The Last two I found at www.ansearch.com.au

9. Which Brisbane-based punk band is Stephen Stockwell (Head of the School
of Arts) a member of?

Black Assassin. Couldn’t find anything about it on this searchengine but I heard it in class so I looked it up on Google.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Assassins)

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

Web 2.0 is more or less the next level of internet, which takes the common man more and more into the internet. Sort of speak…