1. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1999

4. A Brief History of PCs 1977 –TRS-80 (a.k.a. Trash-80) –Apple II (1 st color computer) 1981 –Osborne I (1 st portable, 25 lbs) –IBM PC (Intel chip + MS-DOS) 1982 –Commodore 64, a top seller 1983 –Compaq (1 st PC Clone) 1984 –Macintosh (1 st mouse driven) 1987 –IBM PS/2 1995 –a low-cost, limited-function “network computer” 1998 –iMac (easy access to the Internet)

5. Killer PC Applications VisiCalc (1979) –This spreadsheet draws many to Apple II WordStar (1979) –A commercially successful word processors Adobe PageMaker (1985) –Helps spur Mac sales E-Mail (1988) –The Net’s first killer app Browsers: Mosaic, Netscape (1993) –Open the Web to everyone Search engines: Google (1994) –To instantly locate information

6. CPU chips has more than one million transistors & are 460 times as fast as the first model Pentium 4 has more than 55 million transistors

7. Dell helps cut prices by selling directly to customers By 2003 some desktops are starting at $400

8. Test Your Digital IQ Spam; Spyware Wi-Fi; 802.11g; Bluetooth DIMM; DDR SDRAM 2.3 GhZ; Intel Centrino 800 x 600 resolution; MP3 2400 x 1200 dpi; MPEG VGA; QXGA; LCD monitor 32 bit; 120 GB; DVD+RW Drivers; Jump Drive; USB http; Ethernet; Peer-to-peer Do you know how to send an attachment? Have you ever written a spreadsheet macro? Can you prepare a PowerPoint presentation? Can you burn a CD or DVD? When you meet new people, do you google them?

9. Test Your Digital IQ II SAP; ERP; CRM Prototyping; RAD; JAD ASP; Outsourcing MS Project; DBMS; SQL Data Warehousing; OLAP Visual Basic; Java B2B; B2C; E-Commerce.Net; J2EE; php Siebel, PeopleSoft, Oracle Do you know how to install an anti-spyware software? Can you develop a DSS application that uses PivotTable, Goal Seek, Solver, or Scenario Manager? Can you prepare an information security plan?

10. 24 million households in the US had broadband connections in 2003

11. According to eMarketer, the global Internet population was over 633 million in 2003