The Past
Created at Bell Labs in 1947 this electrical component has become instrumental to computing with it's ability to amplify and switch electrical signals.
What is the transistor?
This Windows keyboard shortcut allows you to cut the selected item.
What is Ctrl + X?
Use this idiom to signal starting over from the beginning.
What is "Back to square one"?
Created in 1990 this was known as the very first Search Engine
What is Archie?
This A word means to be open to more than one interpretation or to be unclear.
What is ambiguous?
Introduced in 2003, this digital connector replaced DVI as a standard for connecting computers to monitors, offering higher resolutions and refresh rates.
What is DisplayPort?
This Windows keyboard shortcut allows you to select all in the current field.
What is Ctrl + A?
Celestial idiom describing when something happens very rarely.
What is "Once in a blue moon"?
This now iconic logo was originally depicted in 1976 as an image of Sir Isaac Newton
What is Apple?
This D word is used to describe a sudden failure or disaster.
What is a debacle?
This 1983 invention by Paul Mockapetris provided a way to automatically map hostnames to IP addresses, greatly simplifying network navigation.
What is the Domain Name System (DNS)?
This Windows keyboard shortcut allows you to switch between open apps.
What is Alt + Tab?
Pork based idiom meaning to earn a living.
What is "Bring home the bacon"?
Originally used for accounting purposes to show "at the rate of", later in 1971 was used for the 1st email.
What is the @ Symbol?
This N word refers to someone being famous for something negative.
What is notorious?
This 1970s invention by Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan gave rise to a programming language that would become foundational for systems programming and modern applications.
What is the C programming language?
In Windows, this keyboard shortcut opens the Task Manager.
What is Ctrl + Shift + Esc?
A very heavy idiom for people awkwardly ignoring an obvious problem.
What is the "Elephant in the room"?
Never meant to be a major form of communication, this was designed merely to send short alerts to mobile phones.
What is SMS?
Use this T word to describe someone who is determined and persistent.
What is tenacious?
This high-speed data transfer standard, also known as IEEE 1394, was heavily promoted by Apple in the early 2000s and often used for connecting video cameras and multimedia devices.
What is FireWire?
This keyboard shortcut will allow you to go back in the file explorer and most browsers.
What is Alt + Left arrow?
This spooky idiom describes when someone has a hidden secret.
What is a "Skeleton in the closet"?
This game character's design was imagined when the inventor removed a slice from a pizza
What is PacMan?
This Q word describes a state of perplexity or uncertainty over what to do in a difficult situation.
What is a quandary?