E: 07/09 Win £500 ASOS vouchers (TopCashback Members) DAILY

Biker*Chick

topcashback.co.uk/student-hub/bt-competition/

Q1. There are more devices connected to the internet than there are human beings?
I'd guess at TRUE (please confirm anyone?)

Q2. What was the first-ever webcam used for?
Watching a pot of coffee (The Trojan Room coffee pot was the inspiration for the world's first webcam. The coffee pot was located in the corridor just outside the so-called Trojan Room within the old Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge. The webcam was created to help people working in other parts of the building avoid pointless trips to the coffee room by providing, on the user's desktop computer, a live 128×128 greyscale picture of the state of the coffee pot)

TERMS

I'll add to daily thread

cagsd

Biker*Chick wrote: »

Q1. There are more devices connected to the internet than there are human beings?
I'd guess at TRUE (please confirm anyone?)

I'd say you are right, a quick google brought up this page:
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/feb/07/mobile-internet-outnumber-people

slbhill

Thanks for posting - I think this is part of the ongoing comp posted here:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/66416466#Comment_66416466

This is just today's entry so should probably have an end date of 03/09.

Biker*Chick

slbhill wrote: »

Thanks for posting - I think this is part of the ongoing comp posted here:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/66416466#Comment_66416466

This is just today's entry so should probably have an end date of 03/09.

I'd say this is a stand-alone comp - the other one posted by One-Eye was a different 'click through to a specific site' to win a different prize per day, whereas this is two daily questions per day until 7th Sept with one overall prize of £500 Asos vouchers to be won. It also has its own specific Ts&Cs. HTH

priorslee

https://www.topcashback.co.uk/student-hub/bt-competition/

New questions:

Commercial activity was banned on the internet until which year?
Answer 1992 or 1995 - see below
I thought 1995 from here which says 'The final restrictions on carrying commercial traffic ended on April 30, 1995 when the National Science Foundation ended its sponsorship of the NSFNET Backbone Service and the service ended'
I struggled to find anything more definitive

BT Sport is free with BT Broadband and BT Infinity Broadband?
True

mije1983

priorslee wrote: »

https://www.topcashback.co.uk/student-hub/bt-competition/

New questions:

Commercial activity was banned on the internet until which year?
I think the answer is 1995 from here which says 'The final restrictions on carrying commercial traffic ended on April 30, 1995 when the National Science Foundation ended its sponsorship of the NSFNET Backbone Service and the service ended'
But I struggled to find anything more definitive

BT Sport is free with BT Broadband and BT Infinity Broadband?
True

1992 is also mentioned in that wiki article

In 1992, the U.S. Congress passed the Scientific and Advanced-Technology Act........... thus permitting NSFNET to interconnect with commercial networks.

I also found 1992 stated in a couple of other documents here and here. I can't vouch for the authenticity of them though.

zray

No entry form for me but answer to first question is UK

source here http://media.ofcom.org.uk/news/2014/european-broadband-scorecard/

catmiaow

No form for me either.

silversize

the form was there for me - the answer to the second question is The Electric Telegraph Company.

zray

thanks silversize all working now

xsam

Electric Telegraph Company - answer to question 2