Question: Three people intimately associated with the ENIAC were J. Presper Eckert, John Mauchly, and Herman Goldstine. Which one did his doctoral thesis on the topic of carbon monoxide?
Answer: John Mauchly
May 31st, 2008
Question: In 1996, AOL caused some controversy when they played an April fool's joke online. What was the joke?
Answer: They announced apparent signs of life on Jupiter
May 30th, 2008
Question: What company released a shareware version of "Doom" over the Internet in 1993?
Answer: id Software
May 29th, 2008
Question: The three founders of Compaq all came from what company?
Answer: Texas Instruments
May 28th, 2008
Question: What is the topic of the book Where Wizards Stay Up Late by Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon?
Answer: a history of the Internet
May 27th, 2008
Question: Who said "The future has arrived; it's just not uniformly distributed."?
Answer: William Gibson
May 26th, 2008
Question: What computer company did Lore Harp and Carole Ely found in 1976?
Answer: Vector Graphics
The company first sold memory boards for S-100 bus computers, introduced the Vector Graphic I system a year later, and the System B in 1979.
May 25th, 2008
Question: Who wrote the book "Life on the Screen"?
Answer: Sherry Turkle
May 24th, 2008
Question: What does the 360 signify in the name of the IBM 360 mainframe?
Answer: the number of degrees of a circle
May 23rd, 2008
Question: IBM's early rally song was based on a tune written by what composer?
Answer: Giannini
Vittorio Giannini; the song is Ever Onward.
May 22nd, 2008
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