Computer Hardware
This laptop or tablet runs a Linux-based operating system and uses mainly cloud-based apps.
What is a Chromebook?
The app that is known for its disappearing photos and numerous funny filters.
What is SnapChat?
This search engine processes over 63,000 searches per second, 5.6 billion searches per day, and 2 trillion searches per year worldwide.
What is Google?
In the year 2045, the creator of a virtual reality world dies and releases a video in challenging users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune.
What is Ready Player One?
A billion bytes.
What is a Gigabyte (GB)?
The first model of this smartphone was released on June 29, 2007, with the 4GB model selling for $499.
What is the iPhone?
Three-hundred hours of video are uploaded to this platform every minute.
What is YouTube?
This Harvard drop out created a social network that now has over 2.4 billion users and was, until recently dethroned by Kylie Jenner, the world's youngest self-made billionaire at age 23.
Who is Mark Zuckerberg?
In this TV series, Elliot, a brilliant but highly unstable young cyber-security engineer and vigilante hacker, becomes a key figure in a complex game of global dominance when he and his shadowy allies try to take down the corrupt corporation he works for.
What is Mr. Robot?
This entrepreneur has triple citizenship (South Africa, Canada and the US) and one of his goals is to reduce the "risk of human extinction" by establishing a human colony on Mars.
These computer chips form the central pool of memory that a computer uses to operate. The more a computer has, the more applications it can have open at once without the computer’s performance starting to bog down.
What is RAM Random Access Memory?
This social networking platform originally allowed members to interact using only 140 characters but on November 7, 2017, this limit was doubled for all languages except Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
What is Twitter?
Known by the acronym “ISPs,” these companies bring the Internet into our homes and workplaces.
What are Internet Service Providers?
In the Terminator movie series, it is the neural net-based conscious group mind and artificial intelligence system that sends a humanoid robot back in time to kill John Connor, mankind's only hope for survival.
What is SkyNet?
In this common form of cyber attack, a fraudster tries to steal sensitive information, like passwords or credit card numbers, through an email that looks like it’s coming from a reputable source.
What is phishing?
IBM was the first company to start selling this data storage device in the US in the year 2000 and like the Doctor’s TARDIS, it’s bigger on the inside.
What is a USB flash drive?
This social media platform was used by Russia to interfere in the US 2016 election.
What is Facebook?
Also known as the pound sign, it was first used in August 2007 to flag specific events or issues and is now used across all social media sites.
What is a hashtag?
In the original 1973 movie, a robot malfunction creates havoc and terror for unsuspecting vacationers at a futuristic, adult-themed amusement park. In 2016, it was rebooted as an HBO TV series.
What is Westworld?
Tennis for Two, considered to be the first video game, was created in this decade.
What is the 1950s?
It is a type of nonvolatile storage media that stores persistent data on solid-state flash memory. It is optimized to deliver high read and write performance for both sequential and random data requests faster than a regular hard drive.
What is a Solid-State Drive (SSD)?
After Instagram’s own official account, this European football player has the most Instagram followers, at 188 million.
Who is Cristiano Ronaldo?
This is the principle that all Internet Service Providers must treat all data on the internet equally and cannot charge additional fees for access to certain internet services.
What is Net Neutrality?
Benedict Cumberbatch played this WWII Enigma code-breaking mathematician in The Imitation Game.
Who is Alan Turing?
Considered the world’s first computer programmer (1840s), she was also the daughter of famous poet Lord Byron.
Who is Ada Lovelace?