Big Names, Bigger Works | Computational Potpurri | Name that BASH command | WhOS that? | What year? |
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Project Blue
To fix the flaws in Windows 8, this leaked project brought joy to many Microsoft fans.
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Von Neumann Architecture
What famous architecture are most modern computers built with?
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pwd
This command allows me to print the directory i'm currently in
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Ubuntu
What Debian-based Linux distribution is one of the most popular open source Operating Systems?
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1998
What year did the new IMac debut?
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MIT
This well-known university developed the first computer with random access memory
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IBM
Which company invented the floppy disk?
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grep
This is the command I use to search text files using regular expressions
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Longhorn
Before its release in 2006, beta versions of Windows Vista were known by what codename?
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1969
This was the year when the ARPANET was established
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"A series of tubes"
Republican Senator Ted Stevens once called the internet this
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100
How many zeroes folllow the 1 in a Googol
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awk
Which interpreted programming language is used by most Unix-like systems mostly to handle text processing or data extraction
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Solaris
Originally developed by Sun Microsystems, this Operating System has historically been used more by servers and administrators.
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1975
When was the first commercially available portable computer (laptop) released?
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