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100
Before items like the HP Color LaserJet, this term referred to people like Gutenberg.
What is a printer.
100
“My team & I have been up for 36 hours finishing the new Internet Explorer browser for this company; sleep is a fond memory” - a developer.
What is Microsoft.
100
Names for this keyboard symbol include "cat's tail" in Finnish and "Strudel" in Hebrew.
What is the @ sign.
100
This online community, popular in America, allows you to find a sofa, apartment or a companion is named after its creator, Mr. Newmark.
What is Craigslist. Named after Craig Newmark.
100

A 1912 telegram: This "we are sinking fast. Passengers are being put into boats".

What is the Titanic.

200
Intel says it had "the Internet in mind" when it designed the new III model of this processor.
What is Pentium.
200
On Jan 27, 2010 the CEO of this company announced their latest creation, the iPad.
What is Apple.
200
Ordinary analog phone lines that deliver a low-cost broadband data connection use this 3-letter technology.
What is DSL - Digital Subscriber Line.
200
The creature seen here is a symbol of this employment website.
What is monster.com.
200

From this city, Robert Benchley sent the witty wire "Streets full of water. Please advice".

What is Venice.

300
Piece of peripheral hardware whose name comes from "Modulator Demodulator".
What is a modem.
300
This company, nicknamed "Big Blue", is a multinational computer technology and IT consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States.
What is IBM.
300
This 4-letter certification is given for equipment that uses the IEEE 802.11 standard.
What is Wi-Fi.
300
Created in 2003, this site where 27 million people have home pages passed Google in hits in 2005.
What is MySpace.
300

In 1897, hearing his obituary had been published, he cabled that the report of his death was an exaggeration.

Who is Mark Twain.

400
This is a form of computer data storage that allows stored data to be accessed directly in any random order. In contrast, other data storage media such as hard disks, CDs, DVDs and magnetic tape, read and write data only in a predetermined order.
What is Random-access memory (RAM).
400
This company, founded in 1984, rapidly staked out control over the market for switches and routers and then made a successful bid for a big chunk of the market with its Unified Computing System.
What is Cisco Systems.
400
This 5-letter service that lets you video chat with faraway grandmas over the Internet is now part of Microsoft.
What is Skype.
400
The amazon.com family includes this source of information on over 150,000 films, founded by Col Needham.
What is IMDb.com.
400

A historic message from them began, "Success. Four flights Thursday morning".

Who are the Wright Brothers.

500
In 2003 Dell made this computer part on its PCs an option; Apple had stopped including it on Macintoshes 5 years earlier.
What is a floppy disk drive.
500
This company, headquartered in Santa Clara was founded in July 1968 by American engineers Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore.
What is Intel Corporation.
500
The forerunner to the Internet known as the ARPANET was a 1960s network by this U.S. government dept.
What is the Department of Defense.
500
Tim Berners-Lee helped create the World Wide Web at this particle physics lab near Geneva.
What is CERN.
500

Edward Teller notified this New Mexico lab site about the first successful H-bomb test with "It's a boy".

What is Los Alamos.

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