Apple
This is the year that the first iPod was released, with the slogan "1,000 songs in your pocket".
When is 2001?
This was Microsoft's answer to Apple's iPod, introduced in 2006 and discontinued in 2012. Tyler had one of these and it was awesome.
What is a Zune?
This digital pet in an egg-shaped handheld device was one of the biggest toy fads of the late 1990s and early 2000s.
What is Tamagotchi?
It is the second-most popular website in the world, owned by the company that operates the #1 most popular website, Google.
What is YouTube?
The sound bite "You've got mail!" was originally from this online service provider, played when users received a new email.
What is AOL?
It is the city that is home to Apple's headquarters.
Where is Cupertino, California?
This tabletop video game console was released by Nintendo in 1995 and ceased distribution and game development one year later due to poor sales. It used a head-mounted display and a parallax effect to create the illusion of depth in a 3D space.
What is the Virtual Boy?
What is the USB (Universal Serial Bus)?
This mobile app released in 2013 consisted of attempting to fly a yellow bird between columns of green pipes without hitting them. At the peak of its popularity, the creator was earning $50,000 a day from in-app advertisements and sales.
What is Flappy Bird?
The email term "BCC" was originally used to describe when paper correspondence included a copy sent to an additional recipient, without the original recipient being made aware. It stands for this.
What is Blind Carbon Copy?
This computer, released after the Apple II, is considered to be the first mass-market personal computer operable through a Graphical User Interface.
What is the Apple Lisa?
Google released this social media platform in 2011 as a competitor to Facebook. It was shut down in 2019.
What is Google+?
Daily Double!
The years leading up to the new millennium were filled with concern that worldwide tech infrastructures would fail. This was due to many programs being unable to process years correctly beyond 1999. Efforts to resolve this surpassed $300 billion worldwide. This was the three-character abbreviation for this problem.
Daily Double!
It is the video game with the most units sold of all time.
This web browser lost the first internet browser war to Internet Explorer. It once had more than 90% market share in the mid-1990s, then went down to less than 1% in 2006.
What is Netscape Navigator?
He is the third original founder of Apple, (alongside Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak) who sold his 10% share of the company 12 days after the company's founding for $800 (which today would be valued just under $300 billion).
Who is Ronald Wayne?
This device received the nickname 'taco phone' when it was released as a competitor to the Game Boy Advance, with included telephone functionality.
What is the Nokia N-Gage?
Sometimes called a telecopying or telefax machine, a fax machine allows for the telephonic transmission of scanned printed material. This is what "fax" is short for.
What is facsimile?
This portable audio player brand developed by Sony started its life as a portable cassette player. It enjoyed success during the 1980s but has since fallen by the wayside with the dawn of digital and streaming audio.
What is the Walkman?
This wireless technology standard received its name from a 10th century Viking surname from Scandinavian history. Its logo was designed from the runes representing the Viking’s initials.
What is Bluetooth?
It is the name of Apple's first battery-operated computer. It was quickly replaced by the Powerbook line of laptops after only two years of production.
What is the Macintosh Portable?
The videotape format war was won by the VHS tape, which was the dominant home video format throughout the 1980s and 1990s. This is the name of Sony's competitor that lost.
What is Betamax?
It is the first commercial home video game console, released in 1972 with a total of 28 games released across its lifetime.
What is the Magnavox Odessey?
It is the video game console with the most units sold of all time.
What is PlayStation 2?
This iconic image was used as the default wallpaper on Windows XP computers and is possibly one of the most viewed photographs in history. This is the photograph's name, as chosen by Microsoft when they acquired the rights to the image in 2000.
What is Bliss?