What the Tech?
This is the port most often used for secure web traffic.
What is 443 (HTTPS)?
This phrase describes a fix that technically works, but is held together with metaphorical duct tape and coffee.
What is a kludge?
This was the first widely-used graphical web browser, not just a type of dinosaur.
What is Mosaic?
In this movie, Keanu Reeves takes the red pill and finds out reality is actually a simulation.
What is The Matrix?
This keyboard shortcut is commonly used to refresh a web page in most browsers.
What is F5?
This command-line utility is every tech's first move when someone says, "The internet's down!"
What is ipconfig /all?
If someone says, "It's not a bug, it's a feature," they probably work here.
What is software development?
Before "the cloud," this was the buzzword for off-site data storage.
What is a server farm?
In this 1995 cult classic, a group of teenage hackers try to stop a computer virus called "The Da Vinci".
What is Hackers?
This is the default local IP address used to access a router's admin panel.
What is 192.168.0.1?
This is the four-letter acronym for the process that assigns IP addresses dynamically.
What is DHCP?
This slang term refers to a user who finds new ways to break tech in ways never imagined.
What is a luser?
This '90s-era sound signaled the start of your long wait to connect to the internet.
What is a dial-up modem handshake?
This 1983 film asked, "Shall we play a game?" and nearly started WWIII with a game of Global Thermonuclear War.
What is WarGames?
In binary, this number (in decimal) is represented as 11111111.
What is 255?
In networking, this device is smarter than a hub but not as sophisticated as a router.
What is a switch?
If you "bricked" your device, this is what you've turned it into.
What is an expensive paperweight?
This inventor of the World Wide Web isn't Al Gore.
Who is Tim Berners-Lee?
In this film, a pair of students approach a programmer to build their project - but he ends up turning their idea into his own empire.
What is The Social Network?
This networking device uses MAC addresses to forward data only to the intended recipient within a LAN.
What is a switch?
If your RAM is maxed out and your system is crawling like a snail in molasses, this kind of file gets used as backup.
What is a swap file (or virtual memory)?
"To push the envelope" in IT might mean beta-testing this risky type of code.
What is bleeding edge technology?
This historic tech milestone occurred on Jan 1, 1983, allowing computers to finally talk using a standard protocol.
What is the adoption of TCP/IP?
Sandra Bullock's character has her identity erased in this 1995 film just by clicking on a pizza logo.
What is The Net?
This type of DNS record links a domain name to an IPv4 address.
What is an A record?