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- Which early high-level programming language designed in 1959 was partly based on the programming language FLOW-MATIC designed by Grace Hopper?
- What was the name of the manual calculating device created by John Napier in the 17th century?
- The proposal for what would become the World Wide Web was submitted by which British researcher in 1989?
- In 1965 Moore’s Law first proposed that the number of what in a dense integrated circuit would double about every two years?
- Originally released for Apple II by VisiCorp in 1979, VisiCalc was the first type of what computer program?
- In 1848 which English mathematician, daughter of poet Lord Byron, wrote the world's first computer program?
- What was recognized by the 2006 Guinness Book of World Records as the greatest selling single computer of all time?
- What device invented by William Oughtred in the 1620s is considered an analog computing device?
- In 2015, which credit-card sized computer surpassed the ZX Spectrum in unit sales to become the best-selling British computer?
- Who founded Microsoft with Bill Gates?
- In which year did Microsoft release Windows 1.0?
- Who founded Apple with Steve Jobs in 1976?
- Larry Page and Sergey Brin launched what in 1998?
- What did Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim launch in 2005?
- Which computer programmer founded the media organization WikiLeaks in 2006?
- What did a team of IBM engineers led by Alan Shugart invent in 1971?
- Which technology company created the world's first commercial microprocessor chip in 1971?
- What is the 1985 claim to fame of a company called Symbolics?
- What name was given to the large computer put into operation in 1944 to help in the cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher?
- Which computer-programming language created in 1957 by John Backus shortened the process of programming?
- American Web developer David Karp founded which blogging site in 2007?
- Which company released its first notebook computer, the 316LT, in 1989?
- In 1996, which chess-playing computer made history by defeating world champion Garry Kasparov?
- Which piece of computer hardware did American inventor Douglas Engelbart patent in 1970?
- Which British computer company built the BBC Micro computer that dominated the UK educational market in the 1980s?
Answers
- COBOL
- Napier's Bones
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Transistors
- Spreadsheet
- Ada Lovelace
- Commodore 64 (C64)
- Slide rule
- Raspberry Pi
- Paul Allen
- 1985
- Steve Wozniak
- Google
- YouTube
- Julian Assange
- Floppy disk
- Intel
- Registration of the first dot-com domain
- Colossus
- FORTRAN
- Tumblr
- Dell
- Deep Blue
- Computer mouse
- Acorn Computers