Tech Acronyms
What does the "U" in USB stand for?
Universal
Co-founded by over ten individuals, including Elon Musk and Sam Altman, this company is regarded as the largest AI LLM company worldwide
Open AI
Developer of Fortnite
Epic Games
He unveiled the first iPhone in 2007
Steve Jobs
This platform, known for 280-character posts, was rebranded "X" in 2023
What does WWW stand for?
World Wide Web
This programming language is named after a British comedy troupe
Unit for a monitor's refresh rate
Hertz (Hz)
World's largest company by revenue, which started as an online bookstore
Amazon
Tiny icons of Japanese origin that replace words in text
Emojis
The piece often called the "brain" of the computer
CPU (Central Processing Unit)
There are this many bits in a byte
8
Nintendo's 1989 handheld console, bundled with Tetris
Bill Gates co-founded Microsoft in 1975 with his childhood friend. What is his name?
Paul Allen
TikTok's parent company
ByteDance
Language used to query databases
SQL
In 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue became the first computer to beat a reigning world champion at chess; he was this Russian grandmaster
Garry Kasparov
Magnavox's 1972 release, the first commercial home console
The Odyssey
Facebook launched from a Harvard dorm in this year
2004
Pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin
Satoshi Nakamoto
Code that maps letters onto numbers, e.g 65=A
ASCII
This 1960s MIT chatbot, built by Joseph Weizenbaum, mimicked a psychotherapist and is considered one of the first chatbots
ELIZA
Millions of unsold copies of this 1982 Atari game were reportedly buried in a New Mexico landfill
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Google's search engine was originally nicknamed this at Stanford
BackRub
The physics lab in Switzerland where the first website went online
CERN