Hue knew?
AKA
How the cookie crumbles
All systems go
The animal kingdom
200

World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee gets questions like "Why are links" this color?--"There is no reason"

blue

200

In a web browser, this remembers your preferences; in a jar, it’s a tempting snack.

cookie

200

A computer processes information in these small units, but at lunch, you might take one out of a sandwich.

byte

200

Able to recognize patterns & help solve problems, neural networks are designed in imitation of this roughly 3-pound item

brain

200

Known for its readability and versatility, this programming language draws its moniker from a comedic ensemble famous for their sketches about knights, fish slapping, and an overabundance of canned meat

Python

400

A type of self-balancing binary search tree structure uses these two alternating colors to maintain efficient operations.

red and black

400

A Gravity Falls character often shouts “[this] ‘em”, developers rely on this tool for version control, and in British slang, it’s an insult for an annoying person.

git

400

Your inbox fills up with this unwanted nuisance, but in Hawaii, you might find it in musubi.

Spam
400

The "HT" in both HTTP & HTML stands for this

hypertext

400

Popular in Java, JavaScript, and C#, this casing style gets its name from a creature known for its adaptations to arid environments

camel

600

 00FF00 is the hexadecimal color code for this color. 

green

600

A developer creates this to take a project in a new direction, while a diner uses it to twirl pasta.

fork

600

This tiny device helps teach coding and electronics, but its name might make you think of a fruity pastry.

Raspberry Pi

600

One of the first search engines shared its name with this comic book character, inspiring successors named Veronica & Jughead

Archie

600

This animal is the cold-loving mascot of the 1991 open source operating system

penguin

800

DAILY DOUBLE

In one type of software testing, the system’s inner workings are hidden from view, inside a sealed container of this color.

black

800

Old monitors needed a screensaver, which moved so it wouldn't burn in; today you can use this static image, also a home decorating item

wallpaper

800

In software, it’s unstructured code; on a plate, it’s a classic comfort food.

spaghetti

800

Nations get their own domain extensions; .dk is the one for this country

Denmark

800

This command prints file contents in Linux, while its living counterpart might walk across your keyboard

cat

1000

DAILY DOUBLE

You get this color when you mix together the two colors that appear twice in the Google logo.

purple

1000

Like a T-shirt, a computer program is made of these; in an online forum, they're sequences of comments on the same topic

threads

1000

In computing, this function is used to map data in a table; at breakfast its brown variety paris well with eggs.

hash

1000

The forerunner to the Internet known as the ARPANET was a 1960s network by this U.S. government dept.

defense

1000

While some might study them in a bamboo forest, others use them to clean and process large datasets

pandas