TECH WORLD

A TECHNOLOGY AWARENESS
GUIDE
Mishra
Dibyendu Mishra

The title and subtext have been shamelessly stolen from Ravi Handa and Avinash Maurya s Biz World.

1. It is known as Probotector and Gryzgor in some parts of the world. In Nicaragua one would use
the word to refer to a group of rebels. Mad Dog and Scorpion are names that you can associate
with it. What is being talked about here?
2. He often wears a button reading Impeach God. Instead of celebrating 25th of December as
Christmas, he celebrates it as Grav-mas after Sir Isaac Newton. He is the author of sci-fi stories
namely The Right to Read and Jinnetic Engineering.In 2006,in the state of Kerala he managed to
convince authorities of 12,500 schools to switch from Windows to free operating Systems. Identify
this iconic person.
3. Which neuroscientist founded PDA manufacturing companies called Handspring and Palm
Computing and also created the path breaking character recognition software called Graffiti?
4. The companys name in Finnish means burning wood. The very first venture by its founders was
King of the Cabbage World which was developed as a competition hosted by Nokia and HP. The 5th
version of its most famous venture is a tribute to Star Wars. Identify the company.
5.Just For Fun: The Story of an accidental revolutionary is the autobiography of which famous
personality?
6. Which term was coined by a well known hacker and spammer called Khan C. Smith?
7. Which classic game launched in 1978 by Tomohiro Nishikado caused a nationwide shortage of the
denomination of 100-yen-coins in Japan?
8. It started off in the month of June,1967 in the city of New York as a spinoff of the Chicago Music
Show with an inauguration speech being made by Motorola chairman Bob Galvin.It has been
responsible for introducing notable products like VCR,CD,the game Tetris,DVD,NES,XBOX 360,Blu
Ray Discs and many more. What is being talked about here?
9.This term was coined by John R. Pierce. It was chosen out of a ballot at the Bell Telephone
Laboratories. Other contenders included Lotatron,Semiconductor triode,Solid Triode and Crystal
Triode. Identify the term.
10.This company was founded by Linkabit founders Irwin Jacobs and Andrew Viterbi.The very first
product launched by them was a satellite locating and messaging service called OmniTRACS.Identify
the company.
11. X wrote the open source port scanning program 'Strobe' and Co-invented the 'rubberhose
deniable encryption' concept used in cryptography. He also wrote "Surfraw", a command line
interface to search engines and is also a contributor to the book Underground: Tales of Hacking,
Madness and Obsession. Identify X.
12. Which famous gaming company was founded by the Guillemot brothers?
13. Jay Freeman, often nicknamed as Saurik, is the developer of which popular application whose
name literally means worm in the apple?
14. With which IT personality can you relate the SpaceShipOne which holds the record of
having completed the first manned private spaceflight ?

15. Which UNIX OS was originally developed by Sun Microsystems?

16.Which term describes the gaming equivalent of trolls?
17.What is the name of the most famous venture by Jasubhai Digital Media Pvt. Limited?
18.What is SIMRAN in the context of Indian railways?
19.Which online major has a small robotic cat called Fella as its mascot?
20. Which popular event is held in the Fira de Barcelona every year since 2006?
21. Which company, initially known as Bombay Telephone, has the tagline Transparency makes us
different?
22. Ranjana Sonawane from the Tembhli village in Maharashtra became the first recipient of what?
23. Which hardware manufacturer, founded as the Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., has been in news
for the numerous suicides committed by its workers?
24. 'The Apple Macintosh Book' by Cary Lu and 'Exploring the IBM PC' by Peter Norton- both
released in 1984 at the West Coast Computer Fairewere the first two books from the publishing wing
of which technology major?
25.Game Over was a documentary film made by Vikram Jayanti about which iconic moment?
26. Name the iconic person behind the inventions of the bag less vacuum cleaners and the bladeless
fans.
27. Which concept did M. Stanley Whittingham conceive in the 1970s that has become a staple in
the electronics industry?
28. Which famous venture capitalist is the author of the bestseller The Macintosh Way?
29. Which company goes by the strategy "One Global Company", "One Global Brand" and "One
Global Team" ?
30.He, at age 4 built his first circuit board,at age 6 built his first engine,at 17 graduated from MIT
and at 21 became the CEO of his fathers company.Who is this iconic person ?
31. What is the name of the secret facility run by Google somewhere in the Bay Area of North
California which has been working on projects like space elevators, Google Glass and the Google
Driverless Car ?
32. PC Talk and PC File are regarded to be the first kinds of X. Jim Knopf is considered to be the
father of X and Bob Wallace is said to have coined it.What is X?
33. Name the founder of Digital Research Inc. who is often called The man who could have been Bill
Gates .
34.Which famous programming language is named after its authors Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger,

and Brian Kernighan ?

35.Which two companies rivalry does the term Browser Wars refer to?
36.Which open source CMF was authored by Dries Buytaert and was named after a dutch word
meaning a water droplet?
37.Richard Brodie , nicknamed The Quiet Lion is the creator of which massively used software ?
38.Which pioneering system was built by Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis ?
39. Which genius cofounded the companies Paypal , SpaceX and Tesla Motors ?
40. Which company created by Anupam Mittal launched a Facebook game called Angry Brides to
create awareness and showcase the companys stand against dowry?
41.How are John Hodgman and Justin Long better known in the world of technology?
42. Which personality started a group called Young Intelligent Hackers Against Terrorism (YIHAT),had
cars with license plates reading HACKER, MAFIA, and STONED and also released a music album in
2012 by the name Party Amplifier ?
43. Name the German maker of optical instruments who started a company by his name which
today makes lenses for companies like Hasselblad , Sony and Nokia.
44. Which personality has founded companies like CL-9 , Wheels of Zeus and Acquicor Technology
and had also created the prototype for the game Breakout which led to the founding of a billion
dollar company?
45.Name the iconic author of the books Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, In The Plex
who is also credited for rediscovering Einsteins brain .
46.Which American programmer is behind the projects like Winamp,the media player and the P2P
network Gnutella ?
47.X had cofounded a company called Tangerine .He is greatly influenced by the work of Dieter Rams
and is the person responsible for designing many products including MacBook Pro, iMac, MacBook
Air, iPod, iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad and iPad Min . Identify this person.
48.Which person gave out the idea of Gmail , suggested the motto Dont be evil for google and
also found the social aggregator site Friendfeed ?
49.Which author and programmer is behind companies like Y Combinator and Viaweb ,
programming languages like Arc and Blub and the famous news site Hacker News ?
50.Which company did David Ng in start in 2006 which deals with products based on his college
research on light field cameras?
51.Who started his first company at the age of 14, served as CEO of uTorrent and created the music
streaming service , Spotify ?

52.Which corporation was started by Mike Ramsay and Jim Barton as Teleworld.? It had its first
product codenamed as Blue Moon .
53.He is the founder of companies like K2 Optronics , Optics Technology Inc. and Kaptron Inc. He is
often regarded as the Father of Fiber Optics .He has created over 40 dynoptic sculptures. Name
this person.
54.He is known for inventing the handheld cellular mobile phone and leading the team at Motorola
that developed the DynaTAC .He with his wife, Arlene Harris ( Known as the First Lady of Wireless) ,
has founded a company called ArrayComm .Who is this person?
55.Which entity, originally known as Volta Bureau , is known for inventions like the transistor ,CCDs,
laser, the UNIX OS, the C and C++ programming languages and Information Theory ?
56.His first venture was called Rediffusion .In 1996 he founded Rediff.com which became a highly
successful internet site .He currently serves as the Chairman Emeritus of the Internet and Mobile
Association of India .He recently launched his autobiography called The Wave Rider .Who is this
person?
57.This was started in 1996 by filmmaker Tiffany Shlain .It is also known as the Oscar of the Internet
.It is very famous for the 5 word speeches given by the awardees .What is being talked about here?
58.X and Bob Kahn are known as the Fathers of the Internet .Both of them are known for inventing
TCP and IP and cofounding the Internet Society .X also led the engineering of MCI Mail, the first
commercial email service to be connected to the Internet .Identify X.
59. It was founded by former Facebook employees Adam DAngelo and Charlie Cheever. Its
members include Steve Case, Marc Andreessen, Dustin Moskovitz, Jimmy Wales and Aston Kutcher
.In Latin it means a sufficient number of people to make a decision. What is it?
60. X means snow in the Finnish language .One in the very first series of this was codenamed Sea
Ray .It runs on the Windows Phone platform. Its theme song features the music of Totally
Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs by Garden. Identify X.
61.What was started by Paul Baudis and Edward Kucera as ALWIL Software Cooperative after the
former encountered a sample of the Vienna virus and was able to remove it?
62.Which Intel executive branded as Rockstar by the company has been behind the development of
widely used technologies like USB , AGP and PCI Express?
63.Who was announced the Global Creative Director of Blackberry Inc. at the Blackberry 10
Experience event?
64.Which companies have distributed data stores called Voldemort,Big Table and Dynamo
respectively which they use for high scalability storage?
65. Which Indians work on compression of images and image sequences has transformed television
from analog to digital in broadcast TV, cable TV, DBS, HDTV, and enabled an entirely new set of
products and services for the multimedia revolution over the Internet ?
66.Which company founded in 1991 as Silicon and Synapse , renamed as Chaos Studios is behind the
creation of the famous Warcraft , Diablo and Starcraft series?

67.Which films trailer posted on Youtube in 2012 resulted in the websites ban in Islamic countries
like Afghanistan , Bangladesh , Pakistan and Sudan?
68. Which Freemium App was developed by the husband-and-wife team of Keith Shepherd and
Natalia Luckyanova, along with artist Kiril Tchangov whose sequel became the world's fastest
spreading game in 2013?
69.Which Taiwan based company founded by Peter Shu started out with the products 'JetMate'-a
laser printer driver and 'KeyPro' a software protection system and has also released a limited edition
USB Flash Drive called 'Spirit Of India'?
70.Which 'discovery engine' , created by Garrett Camp & Geoff Smith , offers an URL shortening
service called su.pr ?
71.Which idea , brought to prominence every year on September 22 ,was started by ICANN member
Susan P.Crawford?
72.What was the name of the most famous creation of the company 'Software Arts' which was
founded by Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston?
73.Which game developer , now a subsidiary of EA , is behind the popular SexyApp Framework and
games like Bejewelled and Plants vs. Zombies?
74.Which term rose to prominence from the book The C Programming Language written by
Kernighan and Ritchie ?
75.Which venture operated by Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, and Abu Dhabi
Media is called the Hulu for music videos ?
76. How is the famous essay The Conscience of a Hacker written by a computer security hacker
under the pseudonym The Mentor better known?
77.What that was developed by Joe Becker , Lee Collins and Mark Davis has become a computing
industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most
of the world's writing systems ?
78.Name the sci-fi sitcom created by Matt Groening which revolves around the life of Phillip J. Fry , a
pizza delivery boy who works for Planet Express , an interplanetary delivery company.
79. Which idea did Reed Hastings conceive when he was forced to pay $40 in overdue fines after
returning Apollo 13 well past its due date?
80.Which company was founded by 3 brothers namely Louis , Emory and Fredrick Upton as the
Upton Machine Company in 1911 ?
81. What was the name of the company which Andy Rubin cofounded before creating Android Inc.
which was famous for the Hiptop series of phones?
82.Which term refers to announcement by a companys top executive of releasing a new product
replacing the ongoing ones and branding the current products as being obsolete leading to a sharp
decline in the companys current sales?

83.Which collaborative movement led by W3C aims at providing a common framework that would
allow data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries ?
84.What was released with the promise of Write Once , Run Anywhere and named as it was
supposed to be consumed in large quantities by language creators?
85.What important distinction has the Computer History Museum and American Computer Museum
given to Kenbak-1 which was invented by John Blankenbaker ?
86.What was invented by Trevor Bayliss in response to the need to communicate information about
AIDS to the people of Africa ?
87.What was invented by Paul Mockapteris on the request of Jon Postel in 1983?88. Which German
was credited for inventing the first high level programming language Plankalkl and the worlds first
functional Turing-complete computer , the Z3 ? (His autobiography is called The Computer-My Life)
89.What was used for the first time on a message board in the Carnagie Mellon University to
distinguish serious posts from jokes?
90.In 2012 which organisation started an internet T.V called YuvaTV to connect with the masses of
India?
91. How are 'The Whiner', 'The Funny One', 'The Grumpy', 'The Cynic' and 'The Drama King' better
known?
92. Which film in 2012 used a projection frame rate of 48 frames per second , becoming the first film
to do so?
93. Which corporation co-founded by the husband wife pair of Cher Wang and Chen Wen Chi was
founded as the Symphony Company and has the world famous phone manufacturer HTC as its
subsidiary?
94. Which company was founded by hip-hop artist Dr.Dre and Jimmy Iovine whose products are
manufactured under the exclusive license of Monster Cable?
95. Which company founded by Min Liang-Tan and Robert Krakoff started out with a high end
computer gaming mouse, called the Boomslang ?

96. Which company was founded by John Tu and David Sun with the former betting the latter a
Jaguar that their company wouldnt last a year?
97. Which company was founded by Frederico Faggin , the chief designer of the Intel 4004 chip,
which deals primarily with microcontrollers?
98. Which widely used term was originally used as a nickname for the Motorola SCR-300 whose
design was conceived by Dan Noble, an engineer at the Galvin Manufacturing Company?
99. Which technologys name was coined by a firm called Interbrand Corporation as a replacement
for the IEEE 802.11b Direct Sequence ? (It has a logo similar to that of the Yin-Yang)

100. Which corporation released an advertisement portraying the thoughts of an 8 year old called
Jake Ryan entitled Made of Imagination for its flagship range of products?
101.What was founded by Joe Kraus and Graham Spencer as 'Architext' in 1994 which is known for
refusing an offer to buy Google for just 1 million dollars?
102.Which company was found by famous scientist Edwin Land as the Land-Wheelwright
Laboratories which was known for its instant cameras that could develop pictures in about 1
minute?
103.Which organisation with the motto One World. One Internet. was founded after publishing of
the Green paper in the Federal register of US on February 20, 1998 ?
104.What was the name of the project started by University of California , Berkeley which developed
the SDS 940 which became the first machine to use the concept of time-sharing directly?
105.What is the name of the DRM technology created by Apple based on the project developed by
Veridisc which was formerly encoded into every song present in the iTunes store to stop its usage on
unauthorised computers?
106.What was the name of the popular and commercially successful non-substantive, color reversal
film introduced by Eastman Kodak in 1935 which also has a U.S state park name dafter it?
107. The company was initially name after the mythological mountain Mt. Takachiho as Takachiho
Seisakusho. The company introduced a successful brand series called the Pen series in the late
1950s. The yellow line underneath this brands logo is called the opto-digital pattern. It represents
light and the boundless possibilities of digital technology. Name the company.
108. Which German company , founded in 1932 as Ideal , has its name in German meaning "blue
point" or "blue dot" after the blue dot painted onto its headphones that had passed quality control ?
109.Who are Trump , Swoop , Skeeter ,Cruiter ,Nettie , Al-ert , Technopillar and Thwacker ?
110. Which company was founded when Karen Bertiger convinced her husband , Motorola executive
Bary Bertiger of the need for a mobile wireless system that would allow people to place calls from
any location in the world after being unable to make a call to the U.S.A while vacationing in the
Carribean ? The companys logo features the constellation Big Dipper.
111.Which phrase is a title given to a small number of open-source software development leaders,
typically project founders who retain the final say in disputes or arguments within the community? It
originated in 1995 with reference to Guido van Rossum, creator of the Python programming
language and today includes people like Mark Shuttleworth , Larry Wall and Linus Torvalds in its list.

112.Which historic product was released with the Empire State building lighting up to match its
colours and free copies of the The Times being distributed in the United Kingdom ?It also had a
commercial featuring the Rolling Stones' 1981 single "Start Me Up" .
113.Which term was used to refer to the collapsing of signals in the iPhone 4 when the gap between
the chassis bands on the side of the handset with the buttons was touched while holding it in a

certain way ?
114.Which company started by two brothers Theodore and Milton Deutschmann used to don
commercials titled The biggest name in small computers ?
115.Which invention got physicist Dennis Gabor his Nobel Prize in the year 1971 ?
116. Which company is often dubbed The Fast Food Computer Company with its founded Stan Shih
being nicknamed The Ray Kroc of PC business ?
117.Which company founded by Thomas Alva Edison was the subject of the Academy Award winning
documentary Deadly Deception ?
118.Which Google executive often termed as Googles Social Czar is considered to be the man
behind Google + and known for his contribution to the Microsoft .NET framework, Google Gears,
Google Gadgets and Open Social ?
119.Which entertainment website owned by Ziff Davis and founded by Jonathan Simpson-Bint is
known for its top 10 lists and reviews ?
120.What was created by Jack Dorsey when James Mckelvey a friend of his was unable to was
unable to complete a $2,000 sale of his glass faucets and fittings because he could not accept credit
cards ?
121. In 1928 Paul V. and Joseph E. Galvin purchased the bankrupt Stewart Battery Company's
battery eliminator plans and manufacturing equipment at auction for $750.It is known for being one
of the earliest partners of NASA starting with providing them transponders on board Mariner II. How
do we know this company today?
122. Which term refers to tendency of a spell checker to suggest or autocorrect with inappropriate
words to replace misspelled words and words not in its dictionary?
123.Which term coined by Mark Lucente is used to refer to a holographic element which contains
3D information from various perspectives?
124.Which online venture started by Phanindra Sharma is considered to be the largest of its kind in
India and is also known for cloud services like BOSS and SeatSeller?
125.Which company famous for publishing software guides and other books related to technology is
known for coining terms like Web 2.0 and Infoware and organising an annual hackers conference
called Foo Camp ?
126. He started his own music company at the age of 19. His synthesizer is considered to be one of
the first widely used electronic musical instruments. He received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement
Award in 1970.His inventions have greatly inspired the portable music industry. Identify the person
being described here.
127.Which iconic businessman is the author of these books : Made in Japan ; S does not equal T
and T does not equal I ; The Japan that can say no and Never Mind School Records ?
128.Which company founded by Armory Houghton as Bay State Glass Company is famous for

manufacturing the Gorilla Glass and Lotus Glass ?

129.Which Austrian-American actress of MGMs Golden age together with composer George Antheil
invented the frequency-hopping spread-spectrum which formed the basis of many technologies like
Bluetooth and CDMA ?
130. What is the phenomenon whereby an attempt to hide or remove a piece of information from
the Internet has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely?
131.Who said this : All of you know that I have always, and will always bleed purple ?
132.How is Bill 3261 introduced in the United States House of Representatives on October 26, 2011,
by House Judiciary Committee Chair Representative Lamar S. Smith better known ?
133.With which two companies can the Itanium Situation be related to ?
134.Who was the inventor of the F.M. Radio and was also the first to receive the IEEE Medal of
Honour?
135.Which term is used to refer to the 8 men who left Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory due to a
conflict with William Shockley to form Fairchild Semiconductors ? It acted as an incubator for the
development of various companies like AMD , Intel and Zilog.
136.Which company , considered to be the largest supplier of automotive components ,has a logo
which represents a simple magneto armature and casing, one of the company's first products ?
137. Which idea was conceived by Rajiv Rao , an Ogilvy and Mather Executive and shot by Prakash
Varma and produced by Nirvana Films within a record time of 10 days?
138.Which e-book , till 2011 , was always provided for free with every copy of iBooks since it was the
favourite of company founder Steve Jobs ?
139.What was set up by the Department of Electronics in India headed by Vijay Bhatkar to develop
indigenous supercomputers and supercomputing technologies after being denied Cray
supercomputers ?
140.Which viral internet meme uploaded originally by The Sunny Coast Skate last 31 seconds and
features an excerpt from a song by electronic musician Baauer ?
141. Which product released in July 1976 had an introductory price of US$666.66 because one of the
founder was obsessed with repeating digits and also as it was the number of the beast ?
142. Which company started out as Daiwa Kogyo Ltd. that was founded in 1942 by Hisao Yamazaki, a
clock shop owner is behind the piezoelectric inkjet print head technology called Micro Piezo ?
143.Which company is known for developing Scribe , HipHop for PHP , Apache Thrift , Apache Hive ,
Apache Cassandra ?
144. Which company founded by Rashmi Sinha and Jonathan Boutelle has its servers named after
Bollywood actors Aishwarya Rai , Bipasha Basu ,Celina Jaitley and Dia Mirza ?

145.Name the technology executive , often referred to as Googirl , who is behind the development
of the Google homepage.
146.What that was initially developed by Rare is currently developed by PrimeSense and owned by
the company which has a mascot called The Blue Monster ?
147. Which website was created by Douglas Adams in 1999 as the Earth version of Hitchikers
Guide to the Galaxy which has the slogan The Guide to Life, The Universe and Everything ?
148.What is often referred to as 'Wifi on Steroids'?
149Which brand name originated after a contest held in 1999 called " Name That Chip" among the
general public to name the successor to the RIVA TNT2 line of graphics boards?
150.Which company was advertised in the 1920s with the 'Dime Lady' commercials featuring
Candice Bergen ?
151.Which company traces its origin to the establishment of 'Racal Strategic Radio Limited' in 1982
which was then the largest maker of military radio technology?
152.Which product on January 24 , 2013 was officially confirmed to be the last 'flagship' Symbian
smartphone?
153. Which organisation is working on a project called Project Barcelona as a competitor for iTunes
in the United Kingdom ?
154.What product created by Barry Lunt, Matthew R. Linford, Douglas Hansen , has the tagline
Write Once , Read Forever ?
155.Which country became the first to mint QR code coins on the 100th anniversary of a certain mint
in the country?
156.What that was founded by Robert Small and Tihan Presbie has become an internet
phenomenon for the sheer variety it provides?
157.What that was developed by Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis is often referred to as The Poor
Mans Photoshop ?
158.Name the initiative launched by ITC limited to link directly with rural farmers via the Internet for
procurement of agricultural and aquaculture products ?
159.Name the cross platform proprietary software for streaming media over the internet which was
developed by Nullsoft and is now owned by AOL ?

160.Which IT consulting companys logo was designed by Chetan KS a child suffering from cerebral
palsy?
161.What was the name of the Google employee who started the Facebook page "We are all Khaled
Saeed" which was pivotal in the 25th January Revolution in Egypt ?

162.Which city will be the site of the experimental Google Fiber project which plans to build a
broadband internet network infrastructure using fiber-optic communication and provide services to
the residents for free?
163.Which web service started by Marco Arment helps users save webpages and keep them for
reading later?
164.Which audio and video formats does Wikipedia use to play music and videos ?
165.Name the design and innovation company which started out as a joint venture between Tata
and a mainframe computer manufacturer in the 1990s ?
166.He started out as an employee at Apple.He went on to found his own company called Pictra
Incorporated that pioneered the concept of digital photosharing.He is now one of the top gun CEOs
after replacing Bruce Chizen. Who is this entrepreneur?
167.Name the person behind the iconic Gmail logo who currently holds the position of Chief Doodler
at Google?
168.Who has earned the name Open Source Diva after her stints as an open source community
builder at Sun Microsystems, Intel and Wikimedia Foundation ?
169.Which website started by Matthew Inman inspired by Gary Larsons The Far Side was in news
for raising donations amounting up to $1.7 million for the Tesla Science Centre at Wardenclyffe ?
170.Name the long time CEO and co-founder of AMD who gave the world the maxim People first,
products and profit will follow! .
171. What was developed by the X3 committe that includes definitions for 128 characters and is one
of the primary character encoding systems?
172.Which event is organised by a Brooklyn based start-up called Sawhorse Media every year that
awards the best twitter handles of the year ?
173.Which service that is often referred to as the custodian of the Music Genome Project was
developed by a company called Savage Beast Technologies?
174.Name the Chief Architect of Napster who went on to found SNOCAP with Shawn Fanning. He is
also behind Who Viewed My Profile and Career Explorer features of LinkedIn.
175.Name the founder of Cockos Incorporated who is known for developing the Winamp Media
Player and Gnutella P2P network.
176.What was started as Chips and Dips by Rob Cmdr Taco Malda and Jeff Hemos Bates which is
often abbreviated as /. ?
177.Which game developed by OMGPOP was downloaded 20 million times in the initial week of its
launch ?
178. What web-based hosting service was developed by Chris Wanstrath, PJ Hyett, and Tom
Preston-Werner for their company Logical Awesome ?

179. Name the computer club started in Silicon Valley by Gordon French and Fred Moore which had
members including Steve Wozniak, Adam Osborne , John Draper and Jerry Lawson .This club also
published the famous article Open Letter to Hobbyists written by Bill Gates in its newsletter.
180. Who created an insta-prayer website called Yahweh.com to deal with the millions of pleas that
he used to receive every hour?

ANSWERS
1.Contra
2.Richard Stallman
3.Jeff Hawkins
4.Rovio
5.Linus Torvalds
6.Phishing
7.Space Invaders
8.Consumer Electric Show (CES)
9.Transistor
10.Qualcomm
11.Julian Assange
12.Ubisoft
13.Cydia
14. Paul Allen
15. Solaris
16.Griefer
17.The Digit Magazine
18.GPS system (Satellite Imaging and Rail Navigation)
19.Deviantart
20.Mobile World Congress
21.MTNL
22.Aadhar Card
23.Foxconn
24. Microsoft
25. Deep Blue vs. Gary Kasparov
26.James Dyson
27.Lithium ion batteries
28.Guy Kawasaki
29.Acer
30.Tony Stark
31.Google X labs
32.Shareware
33.Gary Kildall
34.AWK
35.Microsoft (Internet Explorer) and Netscape ( Navigator)
36.Drupal
37.MS Word

38.Usenet
39.Elon Musk
40.Shaadi.com
41.The PC Guy and The Mac Guy ( Get a mac commercials)
42.Kim Dotcom
43.Carl Zeiss
44.Steve Wozniack
45.Steven Levy
46.Justin Franknel
47.Jonathan Ive
48.Paul Buchheit
49.Paul Graham
50.Lytro Inc.
51.David Ek
52. Tivo Inc.
53.Narinder Kapany
54.Martin Cooper
55.Bell Labs
56.Ajit Balakrishnan
57.Webby Awards
58.Vint Cerf
59.Quora
60.Lumia
61.Avast!
62.Ajay Bhatt
63.Alicia Keys
64.LinkedIn , Google and Amazon
65.Arun Netravali
66.Blizzard Entertainment
67.Innocence Of Muslims
68.Temple Run
69.Transcend
70.StumbleUpon
71.One Web Day
72.Visicalc
73.PopCap Games
74.Hello World
75.VEVO
76.Hacker Manifesto
77.Unicode
78.Futurama
79.Netflix
80.Whirlpool
81.Danger Inc.
82.The Elop Effect(named after Stephen Elop)
83.Semantic Web
84.JAVA

85.Worlds first PC
86.Wind-up radio
87.Domain Name System (DNS)
88.Konrad Zuse
89.Smiley Emoticon by Scott Fahlman
90.Bhartiya Janata Party
91.The Blackberry Boys
92.The Hobbit An Unexpected Journey
93.VIA Technologies
94.Beats Electronics
95.Razer
96.Kingston Technologies ( John Tu lost the bet)
97.Zilog
98.Walkie-Talkie
99.Wi-Fi
100.Sony for its Xperia range of smartphones
101. Excite
102.Polaroid Corporation
103.ICANN
104.Project Genie
105.Fairplay
106.Kodachrome
107.Olympus Corporation
108.Blaupunk GmbH
109.Monsters of Monster.com
110.Iridium Comunications
111.Benevolent Dictator for Life
112.Windows 95
113.Gorilla Grip of Death
114.Radioshack
115.Hologram
116.Acer Inc.
117.General Electric
118.Vic Gundotra
119.IGN Entertainment Inc.
120.Square Inc.
121.Motorola
122.Cupertino Effect
123.Hogel
124.Redbus.in
125.OReilly Media
126.Robert Moog
127.Akio Morita
128.Corning Inc.
129.Hedy Lamarr
130.Streisand Effect
131.Jerry Yang , Yahoo co-founder

132.SOPA ( Stop Online Piracy Act)

133.HP and Oracle
134.Edwin Howard Armstrong
135.the Traitorous Eight
136.Robert Bosch GmbH
137.The ZooZoo commercials for Vodafone
138.Winnie The Pooh
139. Centre for Development of Advanced Computing ( C-DAC)
140. Harlem Shake
141.Apple 1
142.Seiko Epson
143.Facebook
144.Slideshare
145.Marissa Mayer
146.Xbox Kinect
147.h2g2
148.Wi-Max
149. Nvidia Geforce
150. Sprint Nextel
151.Vodafone
152.Nokia PureView 808
153.BBC
154.Milleniata Disc
155.Netherlands
156.Miniclip
157.GIMP
158.e-Choupal
159.SHOUTcast
160.Mindtree
161.Wael Ghonim
162.Kansas City
163.Instapaper
164.Vorbis and Theora
165.Tata Elxsi
166.Shantanu Narayan
167.Dennis Hwang
168.Danese Cooper
169.The Oatmeal
170.Jerry Sanders
171.ASCII
172.Shorty Awards
173.Pandora Radio
174.Jordan Mendelson
175.Justin Frankel
176.Slashdot
177.Draw Something
178.GitHub

179.Homebrew Computer Club

180.Bruce Nolan ( from the movie Bruce Almighty )