history of VIN
coding in live
the backlog
infrastructure
random
100
Founded in 1991, with its current motto "for vets, by vets".
What is VIN?
100
In the ancient days, VIN would deploy code to production using this utility to compare what code had changed?
What is WINMerge?
100
Once referred to as the place where stories go to die.
What is the engineering backlog?
100
In 2025, IT added NVMe storage for higher performance. What does NVMe stand for?
a) No Vegetables, More Espresso
b) Network Virtual Machine Express
c) Non Volatile Memory Express
d) No Virtual Machine Encumbrance
c) Non Volatile Memory Express
100
What does the D in PDP stand for?
a) Da Man
b) Davis
c) DJ Pauly Pion
d) David
d) David
200
Its addition to the VIN family led to a rapid increase in student membership.
What is Ivala Learn?
200
In VIN folklore, it is said that you are not truly a VINner until to do this one thing?
taking down production/VIN?
200
Put designers, developers, and stakeholders into a box (figuratively or metaphorically) and ask them to design rapid solutions?
What is a design studio?
200
In 2025, the Raging Wire circuit bandwidth was increased to 10Gbps. What was the prior bandwidth?
a) 56k modem
b) 3 Gbps
c) 1.5 Gbps
d) 1 Gbps
d) 1 Gbps
200
Long before Monica came to fame in pop culture by hanging w/ her friends at a coffee shop in New York city, this Monica had laid the foundation of what VIN is today with the quarterly index.
Who is Nicky Mastin?
300
What was VIN motto before "for vets, by vets"?
Veterinarians
serVINg
Veterinarians
300
A VIN geek 4 Life!
Who is Scott Allison?
300
This is the public forum where aspiring candidates juggle awkward local questions, someone inevitably shouts about potholes, and everyone politely pretends the free coffee doesn’t taste like campaign promises. VIN held several with local veterinarians.
What is the town hall?
300
VIN's total storage footprint as of December 2025?
a) 31 TB
b) 3,758,096,384 Mb
c) 3.3 Petabytes
d) 2 Hectobytes
b) 3,758,096,384 Mb or 3.5 Pbs or 3.5k TBs
300
The VIN consultant team is comprised of how many dedicated leaders in veterinary medicine?
a) 282
b)197
c) 304
d) 666
282
400
Dr. Duncan Ferguson, a founding member of VIN, began answering questions on this online bulletin board service.
What is Quantum Computing?
400
A colloquial term for when a server has gone unhealthy unexpectedly and for unknown reason?
what is squirrely? the server has gone squirrely
400
Long before show me was pulsating on the frontpage, VIN tried this platform for user tutorials?
What is WalkMe?
400
This firm went from locking down our environments after a security incident in 2024, to locking out 8.5 millions Windows computers around the globe.
Crowdstrike
400
On this year, VIN jumps on to the fade the "internet". It publishes its content onto the World Wide Web.
What is 1997?
500
In 1995, the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA), recognized VIN founders with a recognition award for?
the advancement of electronic communication in the veterinary profession
500
An Italian trainer used to help developers stop coding in live by using a stupid distributed version control system.
Who is Paolo Perrotta?
500
A virtual community within VIN to get rid of testers, spammers, and other crazies.
What is Waynes World?
500
Always in demand and growing...
Storage, Storage, Storage
500
In 2001, VIN launches this product that is now part of the "biggies" and a constant target for scrapers.
What is associate?