Boomer Technology
A large computer system designed to process very large amounts of data. Hackers stereotypically hack into these.
What is "Mainframe"
This language, based on one-liners of a famous actor, contains statements such as "IT'S SHOWTIME" and "I NEED YOUR CLOTHES YOUR BOOTS AND YOUR MOTORCYLE" as well as ending in "YOU HAVE BEEN TERMINATED"
What is "ArnoldC"
This unit of measurement is half of an octet.
What is a "Nibble"
This infamous typo from the President inspired senators to introduce a bill of the same name, ensuring the tweet would be preserved for future generations
What is "Covfefe"?
In the 70s, Bill Gates was arrested and his mugshot made public for this crime.
What is driving without a license?
This brand of phone, while decidedly not smart, was widely lauded as indestructible.
What is "Nokia"
This language was designed in 1952 and only becoming object oriented in 2002. Most programming now is done purely to maintain existing applications.
What is "COBOL"?
On the 4th of July, the amount of these consumed by Americans would stretch from LA to Washington D.C over five times.
What is "hot dog".
On June 22nd this streaming platform made a surprise announcement of their shutdown and ceased operations on July 23rd.
What is "Mixer"
This fictional person works for cyber security company Allsafe. They struggle with social anxiety, disassociative identity disorder and clinical depression. They connect to people by hacking them, which often leads them to act as a cyber-vigilante. They are recruited by a team of hacktivists known as fsociety.
Who is Elliot Alderson?
It would take 711 of these to have a storage capacity of 1 GB
What is a "Floppy Disk"
This languaged, styled after plays of its namesake, is comprised of components such as "Title", "Dramatis Personae", "Acts and Scenes", "Enter, Exit and Exuent", and "Lines"
What is "Shakespeare Programming Language"
An American favorite, this food was famously declared as counting as a full serving of vegetables by Congress in 2011
What is "Pizza"?
This website, founded in 1999 by a now-famous entrepreneur, was originally an online bank known as X.com
What is "Paypal"?
This famous computer scientist was known to hand out "nanoseconds," foot-long lengths of telephone wire that represented how fast an electrical signal travels in one billionth of a second.
Who is Grace Hopper?
This Microsoft product was popular as a personal encyclopedia before being made irrelevant by free internet-based alternatives
What is Encarta?
This language has statements such as "HAI", "CAN HAS" and "KTHXBYE". It's name is based off of something that was the primary content of icanhazcheeseburger.com
What is "LOLCODE"?
This ribbon-like organic compound can hold the equivalent of 215 petabytes (215 million gigabytes) of data per gram.
What is "DNA"?
This brand's tweet roasting a user's doubt about their usage of fresh meat is said to have kicked off modern day "Brand Twitter". They're also famous for dropping a mixtape.
What is "Wendy's"?
This programmer started an antivirus company, claims to have faked heart attacks in Guatemala to avoid deportation, and announced in 2019 that they are on the run from US authorities for tax related charges. They also claim to have 47 biological children.
Who is John McAfee?
This medium of communications is a line of stations, typically towers, for the purpose of conveying textual information by means of visual signs. The first ever telecoms scam occured in 1834 when two bankers bribed operators to communicate changes in the Paris stock exchange through one of these systems (otherwise reserved for government use).
What is a "Semaphore Telegraph" (also "Optical Telegraph")
This language is a cross-platform multi-paradigm language and compiler that can produce applications and source code for many different platforms from one code-base. Code written in this language can be compiled into and generate Javascript, C++, Java, JVM, PHP, C#, Python, Lua and Node.js.
What is "Haxe"?
This 1987 Def Leppard song shares a title with a common name for a hickey
What is "love bites"?
This island country with a population of less than 2,000 claimed the title of the world's first "Wifi Nation" for providing free internet throughout the country. This country also famously have had Pokemon such as Pikachu on their coins.
What is "Niue"?
This software engineer developed on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo program, and in 2016 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her work. There's a famous image of her standing next to a printout of her Apollo source code.
Who is Margaret Hamilton?