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This semiconductor designer was a major player in the GPU scene, before being bought and eventually absorbed by AMD in 2006
Who is ATI?
This WWII era British Prime Minister was often criticized for his "appeasement" strategy for the emerging German threat
Who is Neville Chamberlain?
This "item" from the hit indie game Minecraft is the centerpoint of the Salt Central logo
What is Sugar?
This defunct PC manufacturer derived it's name from a senior naval rank and was a pioneer in early PC gaming
What is Commodore?
This iconic meme created in 2008 has transcended all known rules of meme lifespans, planting itself as a core part of internet culture
What is Trollface?
x86-64, more colloquially known as 64-bit, was invented by this PC hardware juggernaut
What is AMD?
The act of Germany annexing Austria in 1938 is known as this
What is (the) Anchluss?
Though incorrectly dated 10/30/2020, the final written "SC UPDATE" (v9.0.0) was posted which year?
When is 2021?
The XBOX was created to utilize this API, from which the console derives it's name
What is this Diddy Blud doing on the calculator?
Is Blud Einstein?
The modern Windows kernel is a continued evolution from this kernel, first publicly used all the way back in Windows XP
What is (Windows) NT?
Though commonly praised for ending the Great Depression, modern economists say that this set of economic policies created by FDR actually prolonged it
What is the New Deal?
Before the use of "Arcane", this now controversial bot was used to track user levels
What is Mee6?
Though this title is often miscredited to pong, the first video game was actually created in 1958 and was called this
What is Tennis for Two?
Created to send an uninterrupted message without fear of cutoff due to a nuclear explosion, this government project was the precursor to the modern internet protocol
What is ARPANET?
SLI was invented not by Nvidia, but by this computer hardware company acquired by Nvidia back in 2000
What is 3dfx?
After first meeting with Japanese officials, Hitler gave the Japanese people this endearing title
What is Honorary Aryans?
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This channel, added in 2020, was an open chat for the public and was separated from the main group chat
What is the Domain?
Though actually only using a mix of 16 and 32-bit technology, this 1993 console advertised itself as the worlds first 64-bit console
Youtube was originally created, not as a general video sharing site, but as this type of site
What is a dating site?
Though often posted as a joke, do not type this simple command into your Linux terminal, as it would delete every file on your PC
(sudo) rm -rf /*
Had Germany won WWII, Hitler planned to rebuild Berlin into a new city named "Germania", which would have been designed by this inner circle official known as "first architect of the Third Reich"
Who is Albert Speer?
This three letter word is, at least, the oldest recorded message sent in #general
What is oye?
Now known for founding Valve Software, Gabe Newell's first game project was porting this hit video game to Windows 95 while working at Microsoft
What is DOOM?
Bitcoin was created in 2008 and released by a still unknown individual using this alias
Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?