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This chip is considered the "brains" of the computer.
What is the CPU?
This company, founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, is known for creating the Windows operating system.
What is Microsoft?
This term for unwanted email comes from a TV show with a skit where Vikings sing annoyingly about a processed meat product.
What is "spam"?
This type of email attack tries to "hook" you into revealing information such as your password or bank account information.
What is "phishing"?
Chew on this: the smallest form of data, a 1 or a 0, is known as this.
What is a "bit"?
This now-outdated storage device was once commonly used to store and transfer files, and it was known for its flexible, thin disk inside a square plastic casing.
What is a floppy disk?
This "simple" programming language was invented in 1963 as one of the first "easy to read" programming languages.
What is BASIC?
Famous movie actress Hedy Lamarr created a signal-hopping technology in World War 2 that was instrumental in creating this "cordless" form of connecting to a network.
What is "WiFi"?
A hacker who uses their skills to help, rather than hurt, businesses and people is said to wear this color of hat.
What is white?
When you save data on the internet, it's said to be stored in this "nebulous" area.
What is "the cloud"?
This type of memory temporarily stores data while the computer is running, and it is wiped when the computer is turned off.
What is RAM (Random Access Memory)?
This operating system, known for being open-source, is often used by developers and for running servers.
What is Linux?
This connection protocol is named after King Harald I, a Viking king who had questionable oral hygiene.
What is Bluetooth?
This device is in "hot" demand in many businesses as it can block unauthorized traffic in and out of a company.
What is a firewall?
This video game was the first ever, and was originally designed as "Tennis for Two" on an electrical oscilloscope.
What is "Pong"?
This type of internal hard drive has no moving parts such as spinning disks.
What is SSD (Solid State Drive)?
This high-level programming language named after a snake is known for being easy to read and is often used for software development and data science.
What is Python?
What is bandwidth?
If you are blocking a security "hole" by installing an update to already installed software, you are said to be doing this.
What is patching?
The acronym CAD stands for this term.
What is Computer Assisted Design?
What is a monitor?
This term for an unexpected behavior in a computer program was discovered in reality in 1947 when Admiral Grace Hopper discovered a moth in one of Harvard's computers.
What is a bug?
The precursor to the Internet was created by this US government department, who is currently known for developing cutting edge technology for the military?
What is DARPA?
It is becoming more difficult to verify whether digital creations (pictures, audio, video) is legitimate due to this technology which can simulate real activity.
What is artificial intelligence (AI)?
What Disney movie (which has a sequel coming out this year) was the first to use lengthy clips of CGI (up to 15 minutes at a time)?
What is TRON?