Tech History
In what year did Apple release the first iPhone?
2007
Who co-founded Apple alongside Steve Jobs?
Steve Wozniak
What was the first widely adopted webmail service, launched in 1996 with the slogan “Get Your Free Email at…”?
Hotmail
What does “.com” stand for in a website address?
Commercial
What does the “www” in a website address stand for?
World Wide Web
What company created the first search engine to become globally dominant before Google?
Yahoo
What company makes the Galaxy line of smartphones?
Samsung
What does the acronym VPN stand for?
Virtual Private Network
What does “USB” stand for?
Universal Serial Bus
Before becoming famous for creating the Tesla coil, Nikola Tesla briefly worked for which inventor’s company?
Thomas Edison
What does the “i” in devices like iPhone and iPad originally stand for?
What does the “https” at the start of a website URL indicate?
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure
Which company developed the first commercially successful microprocessor in 1971?
Intel
Which company, founded in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, later became known worldwide by a three-letter acronym?
IBM
The first digital camera was invented in 1975 at what company?
Kodak
Which company created the antivirus software brand “Norton”?
Symantec
The floppy disk was first introduced by IBM in what year?
1971
What was Google’s parent company renamed to in 2015, as part of a major restructuring?
Alphabet INC.
Which game console was the first to include built-in Wi-Fi connectivity?
Nintendo Wii 2006
What is the name of the global system of unique identifiers that ensures every device on the internet has an address?
IP or Internet Protocol