Description- Ray Tomlinson showcased an initial iteration of email functionality on the ARPANET networking platform.
Test your knowledge by answering questions related to technology that has started a long ago. High Tech history quiz covers some of the important questions about 'technology that has been started in mid 20th century.
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(1) Which form of digital communication was first used in 1971?
- A. Email
- B. Text Message
- C. Emoji
- D. Numbers
(a) Email
(2) How was the Altair 8800, the first retail personal home computer, sold?
- A. At conventions
- B. It never made it to market
- C. Mail order
- D. Online commerce
(c) Mail order
(3) What does the acronym DOS stand for?
- A. Dark operating system
- B. Disk operating system
- C. Digital operating system
- D. Direct operating system
(b) Disk operating system
(4) What was Pascal’s Calculator?
- A. A legendary algorithm
- B. An early mobile phone
- C. An adding machine
- D. A portable screen
(c) An adding machine
(5) How much did the 1940s supercomputer ENIAC weigh?
- A. 17 tons
- B. 7 tons
- C. 27 tons
- D. 5 tons
(c) 27 tons
(6) What is a yottabyte?
- A. A computer virus
- B. A data-storage measurement
- C. A software error
- D. A computer programme
(b) A data-storage measurement
(7) Which of these did Ada Lovelace publish?
- A. First terms-of-service agreement
- B. First user manual
- C. First algorithm
- D. None of the above
(c) First algorithm
(8) What was the first computer mouse made from?
- A. Terra cotta
- B. Metal
- C. Plastic
- D. Wood
(d) Wood
(9) What does the programming mnemonic HCF stand for?
- A. Highly compressed file
- B. Help code folder
- C. Halt and catch fire
- D. None of the above
(c) Halt and catch fire
(10) When it was released in 1981, what was unique about the computer called Osborne 1?
- A. It was portable
- B. It had a keyboard
- C. It could store a yottabyte
- D. It was a computer software
(a) It was portable