ONES & ZEROS
COMPUTER HISTORY
COMPUTER SPEAK
COMPUTER LANGUAGES
HOMONYM-BLENESS
100
The Jaguar I-PACE & the Fiat 500e are both examples of these, ZEVs for short
zero-emission vehicles
100
The Computer History Museum in Mountain View has an homage to this "Jeopardy!" cyber contestant, whose brilliance is now being put to work diagnosing illnesses, recommending better investments & helping researchers around the world find information faster
Watson
100
A computer running in this 4-letter diagnostic "mode" uses a minimum of files to help decipher where a problem might be
safe mode
100
Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup, this letter "++" is one of the first computer languages that college students learn
C
100
To communicate directly regarding a situation, or 1201 S. Main Street
address
200
This base-2 notation system uses only 2 digits, one & zero
binary
200
The alternative to hard disk wasn't called soft disk but this, & 5 billion a year were sold in the mid-'90s
floppy disk
200
This login partner of a password should also be secure; the website nordpass.com can help generate them
username
200
Seen here is the logo for this language that’s used on billions of devices everywhere
Java
200
A Chinese ship, or worthless rubbish
junk
300
0 K, not to be confused with OK, is also known by this phrase
absolute zero
300
The "Prophet of the Computer Age", they were the first to express the potential that computers like the one above had outside of mathematics
Ada Lovelace
300
An old external modem not communicating fast enough? You may need to increase this measure of speed, bps for short
bits per second
300
Different from emoticons, these pictographs come from the Japanese for "picture writing"
Emojis
300
Prey, or an open cavity for digging out limestone
quarry
400
The bran cereal called this "One" says it provides 65% of your daily value of it
Fiber One
400
Unveiled in 1977, the TRS-80 got its name from the Tandy Corporation & this retail chain where it was sold
Radio Shack
400
To "zip" a file is to do this to it, shrink it so that it takes up less memory & can be more easily sent or downloaded
compress
400
Created by Tim Berners-Lee, the language known by these 4 letters is used to create lots of web pages
HTML
400
A liqueur, or polite & genial
cordial
500
ZIRP is short for this banking "policy" that encourages low-cost credit to companies & individuals
Zero Interest-Rate Policy
500
While working on Mark II, this computer scientist and Navy Rear Admiral's team "debugged" an issue after finding a moth stuck in a relay. Giving birth to the term computer "bugs" and "debugging".
Grace Hopper
500
Whenever you access a webpage, your browser puts the data in this temporary storage for faster retrieval
cache
500
Sharing a name with a type of large snake, this computer language is used in NASA's integrated planning system
Python
500
A cabdriver, a type of cough or a bad writer
a hack