Section 4

Question 1

Programmer at MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Lab

Answer 1

Richard Stallman

Question 2

Funded by the company Symbolics

Answer 2

MIT’s AI Lab’s Lisp Machine

Question 3

Did not want to share its AI software

Answer 3

MIT’s AI Lab

Question 4

Proponent of free software. Wanted source code to be publicly available and modifiable.

Answer 4

Richard Stallman

Question 5

Created GNU

Answer 5

Richard Stallman

Question 6

New, open-source OS created by Richard Stallman

Answer 6

GNU

Question 7

Richard Stallman’s GNU was missing its

Answer 7

kernel (HURD)

Question 8

GNU’s kernel

Answer 8

HURD

Question 9

Finish college student who developed a Unix-like OS

Answer 9

Linus Torvalds

Question 10

Sought to improve the Minix OS

Answer 10

Linus Torvalds

Question 11

Vannevar Bush’s system that predated Web’s Hypertext

Answer 11

Memex

Question 12

Hypothetical machine by Vannevar Bush for retrieving documents from microfilm

Answer 12

Memex

Question 13

Ted Nelson’s system that predated Hypertext

Answer 13

Xanadu

Question 14

System for indexing, connecting, and accessing documents; never completed
By Ted Nelson

Answer 14

Xanadu

Question 15

Made by Apple.
Virtual cards that displayed linked content on a user’s system; no connection to other servers

Answer 15

Hypercard

Question 16

Where the World Wide Web was invented

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CERB physics lab in Switzerland

Question 17

Invetor of the World Wide Web

Answer 17

Tim Berners-lee

Question 18

Hypertext+internet=

Answer 18

World Wide Web

Question 19

Key parts of the World Wide Web that Tim Berners Lee pioneered

Answer 19

HTML, HTTP, Tags, Web server, URL

Question 20

Inventors of Mosaic

Answer 20

Marc Andreseen, Eric Bina

Question 21

Free access web browser made by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina

Answer 21

Mosaic

Question 22

Mosaic worked on ____ and could access hyperlinks with

Answer 22

Windows, Mac, and Unix. Mouse clicks.

Question 23

Founders of Netscape Communications Corporation

Answer 23

Jim Clark, Marc Andreesen

Question 24

Amount of times Netscape was downloaded

Answer 24

15 million times

Question 25

Search engine by Jerry Yang and David Filo

Answer 25

Yahoo

Question 26

Yahoo creators

Answer 26

David Filo, Jerry Yang

Question 27

Search engine created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin

Answer 27

Google

Question 28

Google creators

Answer 28

Larry Page, Sergey Brin

Question 29

Manually created lists of verified sites. Search engine

Answer 29

Yahoo

Question 30

Relied on inbound links to determine relevancy and targeted advertisements. Search engine.

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Google

Question 31

Original name of Java

Answer 31

Oak

Question 32

Inventor of Java

Answer 32

James Gosling

Question 33

Could run on all computers, simplified the difficult features of C. Popular addition to HTML (like animations, games, and videos).

Answer 33

Java

Question 34

Release year of the Macintosh and how many units sold.

Answer 34

1998, 800,000 unites

Question 35

Fun turquoise plastic shell, friendly round chassis, no floppy disk drive

Answer 35

Apple iMac

Question 36

Early potable computers during the 1980s

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Osborne 1, GRiD Compass 1101, IBM PC-compatible portable computer

Question 37

5-inch monochrome screen, 23 pounds, CP/M OS. Early portable computer

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Osborne 1

Question 38

First laptop computer, cost $8,000

Answer 38

GRiD Compass 1101

Question 39

Developed by Compaq to be PC compatible. Portable computer.

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IBM PC-compatible portable computer

Question 40

First personal digital assistant (PDA)

Answer 40

Psios Organizer II

Question 41

Stylus; bulky and expensive. PDA

Answer 41

Apple Newton

Question 42

Grafitti gesture-based alphabet; included many programming tools and apps. PDA

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Palm Pilot

Question 43

Keyboard and wireless email service

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Search in Motion, BlackBerry

Question 44

Portable music players adapted from

Answer 44

cassettes and radio technology

Question 45

The first commercially available cell phone was released in

Answer 45

1983

Question 46

Smartphones combined the features of

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PDAs, GPS unites, MP3 players, and cell phones

Question 47

First smartphone

Answer 47

Handspring Treo

Question 48

Sold cellular telephones

Answer 48

BlackBerry

Question 49

Manufactured smartphones using Symbian

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Nokia

Question 50

Released a Windows Mobile OS for smartphones

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Microsoft

Question 51

The iPhone sold

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90 million copies in 3 years

Question 52

Interactive websites focused on publishing use-generated content

Answer 52

Web 2.0

Question 53

Invented by Ward Cunningham in 1995

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Wikipedia

Question 54

Objective C, Swift based cellular phones

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Apple

Question 54

Wikiwiki (Hawaiian word)

Answer 54

Quick

Question 55

Java used for phones

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Android

Question 56

Sued Google for royalty payments in 2009

Answer 56

Oracle

Question 57

Every few years, PCs increase in power and decrease in price. Transistor double on a processor.

Answer 57

Moore's Law

Question 58

Leasing computers to other businesses for a fee

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Cloud computing

Question 59

SaaS

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Software as a service

Question 60

Salesforce.com, Adobe Suite, Hotmail/Outlook, Office Suite, Gmail, G Suite

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Saas

Question 61

Online ledger that can be used to record financial transactions, citizenship, membership, ownership, and more

Answer 61

Blockchain

Question 62

Series of bytes based on the content of previous entires. Apart of blockchain

Answer 62

Hashes

Question 63

Invented by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008

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Bitcoin

Question 64

NFT

Answer 64

non-fungible token

Question 65

The study of AI began during the

Answer 65

1950s

Question 66

Using algorithms to analyze data and find patterns

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machine learning

Question 67

"Bit" units are represented by 0 or 1. Slower

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Electronic computers

Question 68

"Bit" units are represented by positions of an electron on an atom. Incredibly fast

Answer 68

Quantum computers