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100

In what year did Apple release the first iPhone?

2007

100

Who co-founded Apple alongside Steve Jobs?

Steve Wozniak

100

What was the first widely adopted webmail service, launched in 1996 with the slogan “Get Your Free Email at…”?

Hotmail

100

What does “.com” stand for in a website address?

Commercial


200

What does the “www” in a website address stand for?

World Wide Web

200

What company created the first search engine to become globally dominant before Google?

Yahoo

200

What company makes the Galaxy line of smartphones?

Samsung

200

What does the acronym VPN stand for?

Virtual Private Network

300

What does “USB” stand for?

Universal Serial Bus

300

Before becoming famous for creating the Tesla coil, Nikola Tesla briefly worked for which inventor’s company?

Thomas Edison

300

What does the “i” in devices like iPhone and iPad originally stand for?

Internet
300

What does the “https” at the start of a website URL indicate?

Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure

400

Which company developed the first commercially successful microprocessor in 1971?

Intel

400

Which company, founded in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, later became known worldwide by a three-letter acronym?

IBM


400

The first digital camera was invented in 1975 at what company?

Kodak

400

Which company created the antivirus software brand “Norton”?

Symantec

500

The floppy disk was first introduced by IBM in what year?

1971

500

What was Google’s parent company renamed to in 2015, as part of a major restructuring?

Alphabet INC.

500

Which game console was the first to include built-in Wi-Fi connectivity?

Nintendo Wii 2006

500

What is the name of the global system of unique identifiers that ensures every device on the internet has an address?

IP or Internet Protocol