Digital Tools Quiz 1

Functions of Adobe Creative Cloud

1. Collect what digital assets you create and capture 2. Manage and organize digital assets in creative cloud library by brand, projects, types of assets, etc. 3. Use stored/collected digital assets in design

What was the most-used desktop browser resolution in 2010 - 2014?

1152 X 864

When was IBM floppy disc drive introduced? What was its function? What else can an updated version of this floppy disc could do?

1968, it was designed to load microbe into the controller for the "Merlin," the updated version was a read/write floppy disk drive not just read.

When was semiconductor memory introduced in an IBM computer? How was it better than magnetic core memory technology?

1970—the Model 145 could store an equivalent amount of data in half the space, compared to a computer using core memory

When was Intel's memory chip introduced? How much data it could store?

1971—stored 1KB

When was the laser disc introduced? What was the benefit of using laser disc?

1978—it offered better audio and video quality than its competitors

When was CompactFlash introduced? Why did it become popular among consumers?

1994—its ruggedness and high capacity made it a preferred choice

When was CSS released?

1996

When was multimedia software/platform Flash released?

1996

When was Google launched?

1998

When was USB Flash Drive introduced?

2000

When were MySpace, Facebook and WordPress launched?

2003

When was open-source browser Firefox launched?

2004

When was YouTube launched?

2005

When was cloud-based storage service Dropbox introduced?

2007

When was safari mobile launched?

2007

When was the first 1TB hard disk drive (external drive) introduced?

2007

When was the first iPhone introduced?

2007

When was Google Chrome launched? What features in Chrome made it more popular?

2008—minimalist, fast, and fashionable

When was CSS3 released?

2011

How much information could a CD-Rom store initially? When was the Compact Disc first developed? And, which companies developed CDs?

550 megabytes of pre-recorded data, first developed in 1982 for developing music by Sony and Philips

Which company first introduced cloud-based services?

Amazon

CSS

Cascading Style Sheets

1998-2002

Emphasis on menus and navigation in web design with expanded content offering; fewer text-heavy webpages; computers with monitor screen larger than 800 by 600 have begun to increase.

2006-2010

First Internet Phone, Mobile Browser, Increasing popularity of video, and launching of cloud-based services.

What was the dominantly-used screen/monitor resolution between 2006 - 2010?

Higher than 1024 x 768

What was the function of Iomega zip disk that was also introduced simultaneously with CompactFlash?

Iomega Zip disk allowed 100MB to be stored on a cartridge roughly the size of a 3 and 1/2 inch floppy disk; Zip drives used a non-contact read/write head that "flew" above the surface

2002-2006

Launching and growth of Blogging platforms (WordPress), Social networking sites (Facebook) and streaming sites (YouTube).

2010-2014

Minimalist approach in web design, responsive design with more use of internet via mobile devices.

What did the SanDisk company recognize when they manufactured Solid State Module (SSD) in 1992?

SanDisk recognized that handheld devices and computers were becoming lighter and smaller, and that fast memory, as was used in the SSD module, offered powerful advantages over hard disks

Which company in 1981 introduced 3 ½-inch floppy drive?

Sony

1990-1994

Text-heavy website to text-image website because of innovation of a browser (ex: Mosaic, Netscape)

World Wide Web (WWW)

Tim Berners-Lee invented this in 1989

1994-1998

Websites became more colorful and wider with changes in computer technologies (ex: monitor size/screen, systems supporting more colors & fonts) and further development of browser that supports multimedia content viewing (ex: Internet Explorer 3) and development of languages/software supported by browser, such as Flash (animation/interactive content), JavaScript (interactive content), and CSS (web styling).

Cloud-based network-attached storage solution

designed for data protection, and along with backup capability it also provided a data recovery solution

What were some of the web design trends in 2010 - 2014?

flat design, responsive design, javascript animations, animated GIFs, Parallax

How much data could IBM's 3850 Mass Storage system (introduced in 1974) hold?

held 4,720 cartridges, stored 236GB, at 20ft long

HTML 4.0 did one standardization. What was that?

internationalizes the web defining a universal character set to support use worldwide

How much can the IBM Microdrive that was introduced in 1999 store? Which innovation made the IBM Microdrive obsolete?

it can store either 170MB or 340MB, but CompactFlash and USB drives made them obsolete

DVD was introduced in 1995. How was it different from a CD?

more storage

CD-RW was introduced in 1997. What functions did/does it serve?

this optical disc was used for data storage and in the backing up and transferring of files to various devices