Hardware
A 6 pin mini-DIN connecter used for connecting keyboards and mice to a PC
What is PS/2?
Software model that provides basic service for free but charges money for premium features.
What is freemium?
Internet speeds are usually shown by this measurement.
What is megabits per second (mbps)?
These two characters are used to print a new line in most languages.
What is \n (backslash n)?
The official abbreviation for Coordinated Universal Time.
What is UTC?
A type of communications port that used to come standard on computers in 9 pin and 25 pin versions.
What is an RS-232 Serial port?
Software that translates source code to build an executable program.
What is a compiler?
Command to send an echo request to another computer and measure the speed.
What is ping?
= 2 + 3 * 2
What is 8?
SaaS for short.
What is Software-as-a-service?
From the 1970s through the 2000s it was the standard port for printers on PCs
What is a parallel port?
Designed at IBM, it was the world's first high-level programming language and is still in use today.
What is FORTRAN?
A unique identifier managed by IEEE that every device with a network interface must have.
What is a MAC Address? (Media Access Control Address)
= (2 + 3) * 2
What is 10?
JSON for short
What is JavaScript Object Notation?
Equal to 1024 Terabytes
What is a Petabyte?
The first cross-platform web browser (circa 1993).
What is Mosaic?
The common localhost ip address.
What is 127.0.0.1?
The hexadecimal value of this decimal is FF
What is 255?
An abbreviation for modulator-demodulator
What is a modem?
The company that created the first hard drive.
What is IBM?
Internet standard that extends email formats to include special text characters and non-text file attachments.
What is MIME?
A wireless security algorithm that wasn't very secure because it used a static 10 or 26 digit hexadecimal key for encryption.
What is WEP? (Wired Equivalent Privacy)
The rgb value of this color is rgb(255, 255, 0)
What is yellow?
Short for Coder/Decoder.
What is a Codec?