Computer Trivia General Knowledge, Who's Who and Acronyms
NOTE: The following information has been painstakingly collected over the past four years of my college studies from magazines, journals, technical databases and from computer symposiums held at various colleges. Though effort has been made to verify the correctness, no guarantee is given and the information provided is in good faith
Into how many zones are DVD's divided worldwide
Libretto is a model from which company
What colors are the iMac available in
Crusoe is a processor from which company
Biggest merger of companies so far
Codename of Pentium IV
Timna
Cyber Squatters
In which year was Intel formed
Wyvern
Which person is credited with creating Jini
Who headed the team that created FORTRAN in 1957
Who developed LISP in 1958
Who invented BASIC in 1964
Which was the first computer language used in an electronic computing device
Who developed PASCAL in 1968-70
Who wrote a BASIC version for the 8080 microprocessor, Altair, in 1975
Who thought up the name C++
What is IEEE 1394
Quattro Pro, Paradox and Trellix are part of which office suite
Who invented E-mail
Who invented the Ethernet
Which was the first computer with GUI and Mouse
In which year was the Personal Computer featured as the Times 'Man of the Year'
On which day was Windows 2000 released
What is the code name of Windows 2000's successor
What is Windows Me
Who developed Yahoo
Who founded IBM
Who founded Digital Electronics Corp. (DEC)
Who founded Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI)
??Who spearhead the Free Software Foundation
What is the name of the 64bit processor, code named Merced, from Intel
Who is considered the father of the Internet
On what date was the Internet born
Which company is the largest manufacturer of network equipment
Which was the first successful notebook computer
Who was the father of Hypertext
Who was the father of WWW
In which year did the WWW come into being
Who developed Mosaic
Who founded Netscape
In which year was HP founded
Who was Kevin Mitnick
Who developed the Mouse at Stanford Research Institute (SRI)
What is Symbian
What is the mobile OS from Psion called
Bill Joy
Jean Louis Gasse
What was the first OS for Personal Computers
What is CE in Windows CE, OS from Microsoft for palmtops
What is the palmtop from 3COM
What is BSD in BSD Unix
What is IRIX
Who created Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
What is Intelli Eye
What's YEPP
Denial of Service
Who is the creator of Melissa virus
Bluetooth
Halloween Documents
Beowulf Linux
Six degrees of separation
Who founded Amazon in 1995
What's at www.kali.net
What is Photomosaic and who developed it
Which group hacked into BARC on June 1, 1999
What is the unit of Mouse movement
First BBS in India
Who designed the iMac (not created but designed the shape)
Which person was the key to creating Doom and Quake
Who co-founded ID Software
To which company does EX, the Indian financial package belong to
Who created PERL in 1986
Who establised the GNU project in 1986
Who formed Red Hat in 1994
Who founded Caldera
Ton Stephenson von Tetzchner
Who founded Dell Computer Corp.
To which company does Nullsoft (as in WinAmp creators) belong to
'The easiest way to predict the future is to invent it'
Who invented the Laser Printer
'In a world without fences, who needs Gates'
World's second largets software company
Where is the headquarters of Intel located
Where is the headquarters of Microsoft located
What is 1 Pedabyte
what is CIH also known as
What are Nomad and RIO
What is Error 404
What is Error 403
What is HotJava
What was HotJava called initially
Who created Java
what was the predecessor of Java called
What is the Orange Book
What is the Red Book
What is the Yellow Book
What is the White Book
What is SoftIce
Worlds largest makers of Mouse
Who took over Netscape
What are Newton, Nino, DaVinici
www.bentspace.com
Farenheit
Who founded Apple Computers and when
Who developed the first harddisk, 305 RAMAC in 1956
What was the first spreadsheet
What was the first shareware program
What was the first full length computer generated feature film
Who is Lara Croft
Who is Max Payne
Who was the chairman of the Y2K action force in India
What is AirPort
In how many languages is the Indian portal rediff.com available
What are TM5400 and TM3120
What is the 64bit successor to Intel Itanium
Where is the CeBit computer show held annually
From which company does the 3D Now technology come from
What does ZDNet stand for
Who developed Archie
Who developed Gopher
Who is called the father of Silicon Valley
Who coined the term 'Silicon Valley'
Who created the first computer game- Space War
Which was the first Java Virus
Which company first manufactured CDs
Who created Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)
Which was Intel's first microprocessor
Which was Sun Microsystem's first microprocessor
Who was the first person to discover a computer bug
Who proposed the idea of gateways
Who put forward the idea of commercial ISPs
Who founded AlterNets (UUNet)
Who was the first person put incharge of the U.S President's Internet Connection
Who founded Control Data Corp. (CDC)
Which was the first fully transistorized computer
Which company invented the floppy disk
Which company first produced the 3 1/2 inch floppy disk
Which company was the first to manufacture hard disks for microcomputers
Which company developed the first optical storage device
Which was the first commercial modem
Which was the first online transaction processing system
Which was the first commercial packet switching network
Who invented the computer worm
Who founded the WWW Consortium (W3C)
Who developed the first Web Server
Who coined the term 'Cybernetics'
Which was the first Expert System
Which was the first mobile robot controlled by Artificial Intelligence
In which year was MIDI introduced
Which was the first algorithmic programming language
In which year was ASCII formed
Which was the first object oriented programming language
Who designed Logo
Who developed Lotus 1-2-3
Who formed Aldus Corp.
Which is the world's smallest web server
What does 3COM stand for
Which company developed WinZip
Which is the world's leading animation company outside USA
What type of virus was Melissa
Who was the founder of Cray Inc.
Who created Hotmail
Who developed Linux
Which company does Linus Torvalds work for
Which group designed COBOL
Which was the first indian company to be listed on the NYSE
What was the original name of Netscape Navigator
What technology does the Intel PIII Copermine use
What is the name of Linux's Mascot
What is the website of Creative Technologies
What is BOGOMIPS
What is the name of IBM's latest supercomputer
Which company is the largest manufacturer of flash memories
What was the first message to be passed over the Internet
Which country has the domain initial .za
From which company does former Intel CEO and co-founder come
CoolTown is a technology from which company
Which was the first major group to release their album exclusively online
What are the major distributions of Linux available
Who is a screenager