What is that thing?
Question:
What is this?
Answer: Claris the Dogcow
It’s a Mac thing.
Add comment December 21st, 2007
Archive for December, 2007
What is this?
Answer: Claris the Dogcow
What’s a WAIS?
Question: Who pioneered Internet searching by developing WAIS, the Wide Area Information Server?
Answer: Brewster Kahle developed WAIS, another useful Internet tool left in the dust by the Web.
Add comment December 20th, 2007
Data on a telephone line?
Question: The first commercial modem was released in 1960 by what company?
- AT&T
- Hayes
- Hewlett Packard
- IBM
Answer: AT&T
The first commercial modem was the Dataphone from AT&T.
Add comment December 19th, 2007
Big computer year
Question: The Commodore PET, Apple II and TRS-80 Model I were all released in 1977. But which one came out first that year?
- PET
- Apple II
- TRS-80
Answer: PET
Add comment December 18th, 2007
Robot
Question: The word ‘robot’ is derived from the Czech ‘robota’, meaning…
- complex
- mechanism
- lacking a soul
- drudgery
Answer: drudgery
Add comment December 17th, 2007
Yahoo’s parents
Question: What are the names of the two people who created Yahoo!?
Answer: David Filo and Jerry Yang
The two were Ph.D. candidates in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University at the time.
Add comment December 16th, 2007
Huh?
Question: Guvf dhrfgvba vf rapbqrq jvgu jung?
- BinHex encoding
- PGP
- ROT-13
- Uuencoding
Answer: ROT-13
Decoded, the question reads ‘This question is encoded with what?’ and the answer is ROT-13.
Add comment December 15th, 2007
Ethernet connections
Question:
You just unplugged this Ethernet cable from your computer. What kind of Ethernet are you using?
- 10Base T
- 10Base 2
- ThickNet
- AAUI
Answer: 10Base T
Add comment December 14th, 2007
What’s a Wumpus?
Question: What do you do with a Wumpus?
- you hunt it
- you print on it
- you store your data on it
- you type your password on it
Answer: you hunt it
‘Hunt the Wumpus’ is a classic computer game.
Add comment December 13th, 2007
Hey, VIC
Question: What was the tag line for the VIC-20 in Commodore promotions?
- The BASIC Computer
- The Family Computer
- The Friendly Computer
- The Happy Computer
Answer: The Friendly Computer
Add comment December 12th, 2007