Tech Execs
A cofounder of this company, Larry Page has also served as CEO.
What is Google?
ACL
What is an Access Control List?
The first iPhone hit the market in this year.
What is 2007?
The year the University was founded.
What is 1889?
Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates, and this guy.
Who is Paul Allen?
USB
What is Universal Serial Bus?
This was the year Microsoft shipped Windows 1.0 commercially.
What is 1985?
We are proud of this, our student-to-teacher ratio.
What is 17:1?
Top exec at Yahoo prior to its purchase by Verizon.
Who is Marissa Mayer?
POST
What is Power-on Self Test?
For a few months in 1994, this company was known as Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web.
What is Yahoo!
This number is the percentage of our student population who are distance ed students.
Although we may feel the heat here, what spot registered 134 degrees, the highest temperature ever in the U.S.?
What is Death Valley?
From Pepsi to Apple, he was primarily responsible for ousting Steve Jobs in 1985.
Who is John Sculley?
HTTPS
What is HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure?
Game console maker Sony is now 68 years old, but how old is Nintendo?
What is 130 (founded in 1889)?
This author of "Me Talk Pretty Someday" is a notable WCU alum.
Who is David Sedaris?
This Lewis Carroll book was banned in China after censors decided: "Animals should not use human language."
What is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
Not to be confused with Anthony, this CEO of LinkedIn was recently ranked #1 by Glassdoor in their list of 50 highest-rated CEOs.
Who is Jeff Weiner?
UUID
What is Universally Unique Identifier?
It wasn't a sin to purchase an Apple I back in the day, but it's retail price might have made you think so.
What is $666.66?
This person served longest as President/Chancellor of WCU.
Who is Robert Madison (1889-1912 and 1920-1923)?
This term has come to mean any really ambitious challenge, or any complicated, risky maneuver with high minded ideals behind it, although it originated as a result of a speech from John F. Kennedy in 1961.
What is a moonshot?