| A | B |
|---|
| 1975 | The year Microsoft was founded |
| IBM | The company that "bought" MS-DOS from Microsoft |
| ALTAIR | The first computer you could buy |
| BY MAIL | How you purchased the original desktop computer |
| ATARI | The first big company in video games |
| MOORE'S LAW | This says that circuits will double (about) every two years |
| INTEL | The company that Gordon Moore was one of the founders of |
| BROWSER | Software that makes surfing the internet easy and fun |
| SPUTNIK (satellite) | The event that led to the internet |
| GAME CARTRIDGES | The reason that home video games made it big |
| GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE | What G U I stands for |
| MOUSE (pointing device) | What a computer needs for a GUI to work properly |
| HARVARD | The school Bill Gates dropped out of |
| COMMUNICATION (during a war) | The reason the USA developed the internet |
| XEROX (pronounced "zeer-ox" | The company Apple "borrowed" many of their ideas for the Macintosh |
| ARPANET | The network that laid the foundation for the current internet |
| MACINTOSH | Apple's GUI |
| WINDOWS | Microsoft's GUI |
| PET | Commodore's fully assembled computer (1977) |
| II (pronounced "two") | Apple's fully assembled computer (1977) |
| GOVERNMENT DIDN'T ALLOW IT | Why we couldn't use the internet until the 1990's |
| MS KEPT OWNERSHIP OF IT | What MS did with DOS, instead of selling it to IBM |
| HAD TO BE ASSEMBLED AND PROGRAMMED, NO MONITOR, NO DISKS, | Reasons why you wouldn't want to own the first desktop computer |
| BETTER KEYBOARD, MONITOR, STORAGE, ETC | 3 reasons why Apple II was better than Commodore PET |
| KIDS WASTING TIME, MARKET SATURATED, NOT REAL COMPUTERS | 3 reasons why ATARI crashed in the early 1980's |
