This assignment is 2-fold:

1. Use Word or Word pad to do one web exercise from the bottom of page 20 in your book: Illustrated history of computing or a comparative study of various computer brands
   (see example of #1 and example of #2 without copying them:)
   and (/ or):

2. Scavenger Hunt

   With a partner or alone, surf the internet in search of the following:
   (Read to the bottom before starting)

1. Good software for children.
2. Your major or minor home page at NEIU or another university. If it does not exist, find a site of your interest (a possible minor or major).
3. Besides our site, find one about substance abuse prevention, or AIDS related.
4. An article on electronic voting.
5. Privacy issues in computing/civil liberties (e.g., id theft).
   On a topic related to internet behavior such as:
6. Community networking.
7. Intellectual property
8. Plagiarism .
9. A place you would like to travel to.
10. Gender issues in computing.
11. Cookies.
12. An interactive game or a discussion group.
13. Digital divide or OLPC (one laptop per child) discussion.
14. IT around the world.
15. Filtering.
16. Wireless communications.
17. Spam
18. Computer security issue.
19. Cloud computing
20. Another computing issue not mentioned above

For each:

• Write the URL (internet address) of each of the above items using Word,
• Describe each site in one summerizing Paragraph.
• If you worked with a partner, provide each a different site for each item.

• Center and underline the title of this assignment.
• Bold face keywords.
• Write your name in italic
• Change the font (size & form).
• Indent a portion of your text.
• Email your assignment as attachment to neiu109@gmail.com (if you are in my cs 109 class) or neiu100@gmail.com (if you are in my cs100 class) or turn in printed on paper. Also paste in in Blackboard under assignments in the comment area or attach it.

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