Technology & Computing Trivia
The machines, the internet, the programming languages and the companies and founders behind them. This category covers computing history from the first computers to the phone in your pocket.
Type the acronym, the company or the inventor yourself. Each question comes with a short fact from tech history.
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- 79easy
- 55medium
- 119hard
What's covered
- Computer history
- The internet
- Programming
- Tech companies
- Gadgets
- Acronyms
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- easy
Which search engine shares its name with a huge number?
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Google
A 'googol' is 1 followed by 100 zeros — the name inspired the company's.
- easy
In computing, the informal term "app" is a shortened form of what longer word describing a piece of software built to perform a specific task?
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Application
Common examples of this kind of software include word processors, spreadsheets, media players, and web browsers.
- medium
What is the name of the abstract data structure in which the first item added is always the first one removed, like people waiting in a checkout line?
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Queue
Print spoolers and CPU task schedulers commonly rely on this first-in, first-out structure to process jobs in order.
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What does the abbreviation 'GPS' stand for, the satellite-based system that lets phones and cars pinpoint your exact location anywhere on Earth?
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Global Positioning System
GPS was originally developed by the U.S. Department of Defense and became fully operational for civilian and military use in 1995.
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The Unix command 'grep' takes its name from a command sequence in the ed text editor; what does the acronym stand for?
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Global Regular Expression Print
The name comes directly from the ed editor command g/re/p, meaning globally search for a regular expression and print matching lines.
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