Vintage Tech
Intel's famous instruction set that was released in 1997.
What is MMX?
A tactic used by bad actors via email to attempt to gain user credentials.
What is Phishing?
An excellent suggestion for troubleshooting any Windows related issues.
What is a reboot?
In the movie "The Matrix" what was Neo's government name?
Who is Thomas Anderson?
Virgin Galactic's maiden spaceflight that occurred in 2018 was flown with?
What is VSS Unity?
Mice and Game Pads used this interface for connectivity.
What is a serial port?
The act of physically following a person through a turnstile or security gate without badging.
What is tailgating?
A keyboard shortcut for switching between windows.
What is ALT + TAB?
A now overused very common IT trope phrase.
What is have you tried turning it off and on again?
An important founder of Virgin Galactic.
Who is Sir Richard Branson?
The 16 bit internal BUS utilized primarily by 80286 processors.
What is ISA?
The act of searching for Wi-Fi wireless networks as well as cell towers, usually from a moving vehicle, using a laptop or smartphone.
What is wardriving?
A method for inputting off-keyboard characters that does not utilize a graphical interface.
What are ALT key characters?
USB flash drives never insert the first time because.
What is USB Superposition
A television show that references an aerospace engineer designing a spaceship for TSC / VG
What is The Good Wife (Bonus high-five if you know the season and episode)
This operating system is a required prerequisite to installing vintage Microsoft 16-bit shell software.
What is MS DOS?
The frequency of the pitch used in the vintage phone signaling systems in the United States also part of the name of a periodical tech publication.
What is 2600?
A visual manifestation of a Windows kernel error.
What is a BSOD?
A retired assistant for Microsoft Word.
Who is Clippy?
Names of the first two female passengers that flew to space on Unity.
Who are Sirisha Bandla and Beth Moses?
The storage capacity of a high density 80-Track floppy disk.
What is 1.2Mb?
The fastest curve in ECC.
What is Curve25519?
A Windows folder renamed to include the following string .{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
What is God Mode?
The word former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer used at lest 14 times at the 2006 Windows Conference.
What is developers?
The maximum altitude of Galactic 02.
What is 55 miles?