Not Ctrl, Out of Control
In the early days of Windows, users became overly familiar with this fatal error.
What is a blue screen (blue screen of death)?
Written in C, this operating system helped popularize it.
What is UNIX?
He developed the pre-eminent test for whether a computer exhibits the same intelligence as a human.
Who is Alan Turing?
Developed at Bletchley Park, it helped win World War II.
This helmeted space marine is the protagonist of the early DooM games.
Who is Doomguy?
This virus attempted to make its authors rich by holding your computer captive until you gave them Bitcoins.
What is WannaCry?
He co-wrote The C Programming Language with Dennis Ritchie.
Who is Brian Kernighan?
This 19th century "programmer" helped develop the Analytical Engine.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
This computer turned evil and cast it's crew mates out into space.
What is HAL 9000?
Prior to DooM, id got their start with this side-scrolling series.
What is Commander Keen?
Created by a programming wunderkind, this program brought the Internet to its knees in 1989.
What is the Morris Worm?
It infected Sendmail hosts using a buffer overflow attack.
He created this successor, initially called C with Classes.
Who is Bjarne Stroustrup?
A rear admiral, she helped create the COBOL language.
Who is Grace Hopper?
It was the first universal computer, developed for nuclear weapons research.
What is ENIAC?
DooM was developed on this programmer friendly hardware platform.
What is NeXT?
This supercomputer nearly started the apocalypse until Matthew Broderick taught it tic-tac-toe.
What is WOPR?
Short for War Operation Plan Response.
After B, this language was a precursor to C.
What is BCPL?
Before he saw the Sun, he got his start on BSD UNIX and created vi.
Who is Bill Joy?
Found in the ocean near Greece, it is the oldest known computer.
What is the Antikythera mechanism?
It was used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses for calendar and astrological purposes decades in advance.
This lesser known Carmack was not family but also helped develop DooM.
Who is Adrian Carmack?
This viral cyber weapon successfully took out nearly 1/5 of Iran's nuclear capacity.
What is Stuxnet?
This DEC minicomputer was used to write C.
What is a PDP-7?
He gave "The Mother of All Demos", demonstrating what was possible with an interconnected network.
Who is Douglas Engelbart?
Created in 1837 by Charles Babbage , it was a general purpose mechanical computer.
John Romero and John Carmack met while developing software for this Lousiana-based software company.
What is Softdisk?