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Famous Websites in History

100

This was the year the website Amazon.com launched, the same year that O.J. Simpson famously fled the police and NAFTA was established.

1994

200

"Me at the zoo" was the first video ever uploaded to this site in 2005 - now it has 294 million views.

Youtube

300

An aggregator that first launched in 2005, this website identifies itself as "The Front Page of the Internet."

Reddit

400

Sometimes called the "Amazon of China" - Jack Ma founded this website in 1999.

Alibaba

500

This tech giant originally had the less catchy name "BackRub," now it's the 4th largest company on the planet.

Google

Pop Culture & Technology

100

One of these shown dancing was an early viral sensation when it spread across email and websites in the early 1990s.

Baby (Dancing Baby)

200

This game was one of the earliest "killer apps" - more than tripling the sales of the Atari 2600 in 1980, two years after it originally launched as an arcade game.

Space Invaders

300

Lying face down in unexpected places, this photo trend swept across Facebook and Instagram in 2011-2012.

Planking

400

With over 13 billion views, this song is currently the most watched video in YouTube history.

Baby Shark (Dance)

500

This K-pop song became the first YouTube video to reach 1 billion views 2012 - and also spawned a popular dance move.

Gangnam Style

Code

100

The output of this line of BASIC

X = 4: PRINT SQR(X)

2

200

The output of this line of javascript:

console.log("Webflow".substring(0, 3));

"Web"

300

The output of this line of Python code:

print(8 % 3)

2

400

The output of this line of scala:

println(1.to(5).sum)

15

500

The output of these nested DO loops in Fortran:

DO i = 1, 3

DO j = 1, 2

PRINT *, i, j

END DO

END DO

1 1

1 2

2 1

2 2

3 1

3 2

History of Computer Science

100

This sucky invention was created by John Ambrose Fleming in 1904

Vacuum Tube

200

The World Wide Web was invented by Tim Berners Lee in 1989 and made public in 1991 - but it wasn't until 1993 that this program, the first web browser, was created.

Mosaic

300

This company, now synonymous with photocopying, once had a 'starring' role in the development of the computer mouse and graphical user interface.

Xerox

400

This pioneer was known for her work on the Harvard Mark I computer, the COBOL language, and for coining the term "debugging," though she wasn't the one who actually removed the moth from the electronics.

Grace Hopper

500

Designed by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, ENIAC was the first general purpose computer, however they also designed this computer, intended for business use.

UNIVAC (I)

Technology & Literature

100

We learned that the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything was 42 from Douglas Adams, who wrote this five book 'trilogy.'

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

200

With this 1984 novel about hacking in dystopian future, William Gibson popularized the cyberpunk sci-fi subgenre.

Neuromancer

300

Isaac Asimov introduced his influential Three Laws of Robotics in this 1940s short story collection.

I, Robot.

400

This 1985 novel was Carl Sagan's only non-fiction publication - it was later made into a movie of the same name.

Contact

500

This term originates from a 1920 play by Czech writer Karel Čapek and originally meant "forced labour."

Robot