Radia Perlman has been called the "Mother of the Internet" for her development of spanning-tree protocol, which was essential for Ethernet LAN.
What does LAN stand for?
What is Local Area Network?
100
This protagonist who shoots alien parasites in the classic military science fiction game, Metroid.
Who is Samus Aran?
100
MMORPG
What is Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game?
100
Indonesian coffee beans (4)
What is Java?
100
A church where Steve Jobs would preach
What is an Apple chapel?
200
The first computer language, FORMAC, was the first widely used language for computing mathematical formulas. It was developed by Jean E. Sammet while she worked for this company which developed Watson, the supercomputer featured on Jeopardy.
What is IBM?
200
Chell makes her way through an abandoned science lab with dangerous robots, armed only with a teleportation mechanism gun, in this physics puzzle game.
What is Portal?
200
HTML
What is Hypertext Markup Language?
200
Snake species (6)
What is Python?
200
A high-pitched stringed instrument
What is a C# Harp?
300
The first algorithm for a computing machine was made for Charles Babbage's theoretical Analytical Engine by this 19th century mathematician, regarded as the first computer programmer.
Who is Lady Ada Lovelace?
300
This game simulates daily life for one or more people in a household, and the series has expanded to include things like "Pets", "Makin' Magic", and jobs in "Ambitions".
What is The Sims?
300
CSS
What is Cascading Style Sheets?
300
Basic Web language (4)
What is HTML
300
A socially anxious robot
What is a shy AI?
400
The first computer 'bug' was a moth, discovered in the Harvard Mark II by this 20th century US Rear Navy Admiral, who went on to develop the computer language COBOL.
Who is Grace Hopper?
400
Carol Shaw is the first female video game designer, working for the company that made this console, which played classic games like Pong and Space Invaders years before the Sega Dreamcast and NES.
What is Atari?
400
HDMI
What is High-Definition Multimedia Interface?
400
Piano Key Middle (1)
What is C?
400
A small Eclipse
What is a minor compiler?
500
Programmed by a group of 6 female "computors": Betty Holbertson, Jean Bartnik, Kathleen Antonelli, Marlyn Meltzer, Ruth Teitelbaum, and Frances Spence; the first electric general-purpose computer was called this acronym.
What is ENIAC?
500
This company, co-founded by Roberta Williams, creator of King's Quest, has published games like Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon, Pharaoh, Diablo: Hellfire, Counter-strike, and Half-Life.