Computer Hardware
Before items like the HP Color LaserJet, this term referred to people like Gutenberg
What is a printer?
“My team & I have been up for 36 hours finishing the new Internet Explorer browser for this company; sleep is a fond memory” - a developer.
What is Microsoft.
Names for this keyboard symbol include "cat's tail" in Finnish and "Strudel" in Hebrew.
What is the @ sign.
This online community, popular in America, allows you to find a sofa, apartment or a companion is named after its creator, Mr. Newmark.
What is Craigslist. Named after Craig Newmark.
A 1912 telegram: This "we are sinking fast. Passengers are being put into boats".
What is the Titanic.
Intel says it had "the Internet in mind" when it designed the new III model of this processor.
What is Pentium.
On Jan 27, 2010 the CEO of this company announced their latest creation, the iPad.
What is Apple.
Ordinary analog phone lines that deliver a low-cost broadband data connection use this 3-letter technology.
What is DSL - Digital Subscriber Line.
From this city, Robert Benchley sent the witty wire "Streets full of water. Please advice"
What is Venice.
Piece of peripheral hardware whose name comes from "Modulator Demodulator"
What is a modem.
This company, nicknamed "Big Blue", is a multinational computer technology and IT consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States.
What is IBM.
This 4-letter certification is given for equipment that uses the IEEE 802.11 standard.
What is Wi-Fi.
Created in 2003, this site where 27 million people have home pages passed Google in hits in 2005.
What is MySpace.
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This is a form of computer data storage that allows stored data to be accessed directly in any random order. In contrast, other data storage media such as hard disks, CDs, DVDs and magnetic tape, read and write data only in a predetermined order.
What is Random-access memory (RAM)
This company, founded in 1984, rapidly staked out control over the market for switches and routers and then made a successful bid for a big chunk of the market with its Unified Computing System.
What is Cisco Systems.
This 5-letter service that lets you video chat with faraway grandmas over the Internet is now part of Microsoft.
What is Skype.
The amazon.com family includes this source of information on over 150,000 films, founded by Col Needham.
What is IMDb.com.
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In 2003 Dell made this computer part on its PCs an option; Apple had stopped including it on Macintoshes 5 years earlier.
What is a floppy disk drive.
This company, headquartered in Santa Clara was founded in July 1968 by American engineers Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore.
What is Intel Corporation.
The forerunner to the Internet known as the ARPANET was a 1960s network by this U.S. government dept.
What is the Department of Defense.
Tim Berners-Lee helped create the World Wide Web at this particle physics lab near Geneva.
What is CERN.
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