Blessed event
Question: On June 16, 1998, thousands of Internet users watched what was widely reported to be the first cybercast of a baby's birth. Was it a boy or a girl?
- boy
- girl
Answer: boy
He was named Sean.
August 31st, 2008
Archive for August, 2008
How's that?
Question: How is this question encoded?
question.txt100664 773 773 36 6633303437 12141 0ustar kevinkevinHow is this question encoded?
- BinHex encoding
- ROT-13
- tar
- Uuencoding
Answer: tar
August 30th, 2008
Trendsetter
Question: The August 17, 1998 issue of Fortune Magazine says to "blame Jerry Manock" for starting a trend. What was the article's headline, revealing what we should blame him for?
- Why Are PCs Beige?
- Who Says Computers Are For Geeks?
- Why Are CDs round?
- Why Does My Computer Crash?
Answer: Why Are PCs Beige?
According to the article: Manock was the product designer for the Apple II, which debuted in 1977 as the first true mass-market personal computer, and he colored it beige—or to use the official term, "warm gray." He chose the color, he says, because "it fit in with late '70s offices, which were dominated by light earth tones. And it didn't show dust."
August 29th, 2008
Everybody's welcome
Question: A famous terminal, supplied to telephone subscribers in France, literally put almost the entire country on-line during the 1980s. What is it called?
Answer: Minitel or Telematique
August 28th, 2008
Heavenly body
Question: CompuServe magazine reported in 1995 that John Scialli used e-mail to rally people to get an asteroid named after a famous composer. Was it:
- Frank Zappa
- Jimi Hendrix
- Janis Joplin
- John Lennon
Answer: Frank Zappa
August 27th, 2008
Is anybody home?
Question: A software package called Snipes was one of the first to connect a personal computer to a mainframe computer in a network. It happened in the early 1980's. Who produced this software?
- Novell
- IBM
- 3COM
- Ashton-Tate
Answer: Novell
August 26th, 2008
Recycle
Question: Name the strip of paper you tear off the sides of tractor-feed printer paper.
Answer: perfory or perf
August 25th, 2008
Code name
Question: Outrigger and Ferengi were codenames for products for what operating system?
- Amiga OS
- Linux
- OS/2
- Windows 98
Answer: OS/2
They are the code names for OS/2 for Windows and Borland C++ for OS/2 1.5.
August 24th, 2008
Myst
Question: In the CD-ROM game Myst, what loud mechanical device is located inside the log cabin?
Answer: a steam engine
August 23rd, 2008
IBM 360
Question: The man in charge of the project to create IBM's 360 mainframe computer during the 1960's was Fred Brooks. How old was he when IBM put him in charge?
- 20 years old
- 24
- 28
- 33
Answer: 28
August 22nd, 2008