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Computer trivia questions and answers.

Fun computer trivia questions and answers.

What computer operating system di d2001's Arhulr Clarke jest would be the first thing HAL removed from is hard drive, i 1997?
A: Windows 95

What yellow smiley interface for computer newbie's was quickly downsized by Microsoft?
A: Microsoft Bob.

What famed movie supercomputer did the University of Illinois have two birthday parties for, in 1992 and 1997, thanks to a script discrepancy?
A: HAL.

What was the best-selling computer game of the 1990s?
A: Myst.

What computer chip manufacturer slapped Intel with an antitrust suit, claming the company had swiped its technology to design the Pentium Pro?
A: Digital Equipment Corporation.

What did IBM call its "pencil eraser" pointing device protruding from the center of portable keyboards?
A: TrackPoint.

What company hyped its Jaguar as the first 64-bit gaming system, because it had two 32-bit processors running in parallel?
A: Atari.

What word-search engine introduced the canine mascot Arfie to fetch results?
A: Dogpile.com

What programming language brewed by Sun Microsystems did U.S. antitrust lawyers claim Microsoft used its monopoly to "crush"?
A: Java.

What self-contained online service opened a link to the Internet in 1994, exposing its one million newbie's to a somewhat hostile web community?
A: America Online.

What online company grew from Pierre Omiyar's efforts to find a broader market for his wife's collection of Pez dispensers?
A: eBay.

What short-lived dot-com made founders Todd Krizelman and Stephan Paternot briefly rich when its stock soared 606 percent on its first day?
A: TheGlobe.com.

What high-tech mogul appeared on a 1995 cover of Time headlined "Master of the Universe"?
A: Bill Gates.

What does "kbps" mean to speed-seeking cyberspeak geeks?
A: Kilobits per second.

What Rolling Stone hit song did Microsoft use to jump-start the Windows 95 roll-out?
A: Start Me Up.

What popular computer operating system was invented by Finnish college student Linus Torvalds?
A: Linux.

What does DSI, stand for?
A: Digital Subscriber Line.

What short-lived company did Apple, IBM and Hewlett-Packard spawn to create platform-independent software?
A: Taligent.

What Chairman of Apple coined the term PDA?
A: John Scullley.

What personal computer company gobbled up Digital Equipment Corporation, to form the second-largest computer company in the world?
A: Compaq.

What IBM supercomputer became a weather forecaster for the Atlanta Olympics after losing an epic chess match to Garry Kasparov?
A: Deep Blue.

What disc technology emerged from an industry-wide agreement to combine competing SD and MMCD formats?
A: DVD.

What computer company crated a removable disk drive that could read and write 3.5" floppies as well as its won 120-megabyte SuperDisks?
A: Compaq.

What game did Chinook, a University of Alberta computer program, become world championship of in 1995, by winning one game aster 31 draws?
A :Checkers.

What metal used in rechargeable batteries would explode when hot, prompting manufacturers to switch to its stable non metallic ion form?
A: Lithium.

What company distributed free Reader software to encourage the use of its flagship Acrobat desktop publishing system?
A: Adobe.

What U.S. agency was investigating computer hackers when its website was trashed by a group linked tothe "Swedish Hackers Association"?
A: The Central Intelligence Agency.

 
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