PROGRAMMING
What does HTML stand for?
HyperText Markup Language
What company makes the Surface laptop?
Microsoft
What does CPU stand for?
Central Processing Unit
AOL originally stood for what?
America Online
What does Bluetooth get its name from?
A Viking king, Harald “Bluetooth” Gormsson
Python was named after what?
Monty Python comedy group
Amazon started as what type of business?
Online bookstore
What storage device replaced floppy disks?
CDs
What sound did dial-up internet make?
Static / screeching tone
What’s the name of the Android operating system’s mascot?
The green robot (“Bugdroid”)
What does API stand for?
Application Programming Interface
Who is the CEO of Tesla?
Elon Musk
What does GPU stand for?
Graphics Processing Unit
Napster was famous for sharing what?
Music (MP3s)
The first emoji originated in what country?
Japan
What company developed the Java language?
Sun Microsystems
Which company developed the first graphical web browser for wide use (Mosaic)?
NCSA (University of Illinois)
What’s the common name for a solid-state drive?
SSD
What year did Facebook launch?
2004
The floppy disk icon is still used today as a symbol for what?
What year was the first version of Linux released?
1991
OpenAI’s ChatGPT is built on what type of AI model?
Large Language Model (LLM)
Moore’s Law is about the growth of what component?
Transistors in microchips
What does “dot com bubble” refer to?
The collapse of internet startups around 2000
The first computer “bug” was actually what?
A moth stuck in a relay