Storage
Games
Audio/Video
Connections
Odds & Ends
100
What is a "burned CD"?
A CD that has music
copied onto it from a computer
100
What is a "Gigapet"?
A digital pet toy released in 1997 that you had to “feed” and care for
100
What is a "Walkman"?
A portable audio player (for listening to music)
100
What is a “rotary phone"?
A rotary phone is a telephone that customers used by rotating a dial on the front.
100
What social media platform is this?
Myspace
(“Tom” was a cofounder and was automatically added as your 1st friend when you joined)
200
What movie-watching technology is most similar to a CD?
The DVD is a digital optical disc data storage format.
The medium can store any kind of digital data and has been widely used for video programs or formerly for storing software and other computer files as well.
200
Describe a "Gameboy".
The Game Boy was an 8-bit handheld game console (video game) developed and manufactured by Nintendo.
Games came on cartridges and cost around $30.
It had a 2.6 inch black and white display with a resolution of 160 x 144 pixels.
200
What does "VCR" stand for?
Videocassette Recorder
200
What was a "car phone"?
A car phone was a mobile radio telephone specifically designed for and fitted into an automobile.
200
What is "AIM"?
AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) was an instant messaging program created by America Online that let you instantly chat with any of your “buddies”.
300
What is a "floppy disk"?
A type of disk storage used with desktop computers.
300
What does this do?
It plays video games.
The Atari 2600 is a home video game console developed and produced by Atari, Inc. Released in September 1977
300
What does “Be Kind Rewind” mean?
The act of rewinding a video tape after watching it is considered a kind deed. VHS video cassettes had to be “rewound” in order to watch them again. (It was often required before returning a VHS tape to the video store.)
300
What is a "pager" for?
Pagers are little devices that receive short messages, usually just a few words or numbers long, using radio transmissions.
Most would beep (hence the term "beepers") or vibrate to let you know someone wanted your attention or for you to call them back.
300
Dial-up internet uses a standard home phone line to access the internet at speeds up to 56 Kbps.
(Netflix streams about 500 times faster than that)
400
What is an "LP"?
A “long-playing” vinyl record that plays music using a needle to read grooves in a vinyl disc.
400
“Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Select Start”
Why was it important to know this?
This was a famous cheat code to get you 30 extra lives in Konami video games for Nintendo, most famously Contra
400
What is a ‘mixtape’, and why did you make one?
A ‘mixtape’ was a compilation of songs recorded on a tape, sometimes off the radio, sometimes off other people’s tapes.
We made them for people we were romantically interested in to try to get their attention and/or make those people fall in love with them.
400
What does a "fax machine" do?
A fax machine converts a document into a series of audio tones and sends it across a phone line to be printed in another location. (It prints out a copy of the document that was fed into it.)
400
What is “1 4 3” a pager code for?
“1 4 3” meant “I love you”
The numbers refer to the number of letters in each word:
I (1) Love (4) You (3).
500
What is a "Rolodex"?
A Rolodex is a rotating card file device used to store business contact information.
500
What character was the official mascot of the Sega Genesis videogame console?
Sonic the Hedgehog has been Sega's mascot since 1991
500
What does this do?
A cable box hooked up to your TV to enable it to receive digital television signals (cable TV)
500
What are the "Yellow Pages"?
An actual book where you could look up phone numbers and addresses in your city.
500
Where would you find one of these?
A Classroom
Overhead projectors were used to project an image on a screen to share with an audience
