Test your knowledge with these top questions!
Which IBM mainframe family introduced in 1964 became the standard for universities?
IBM announced the System/360 family on April 7 1964 for business and university computing.
Which 80-column card was the standard input medium for IBM mainframes through the 1970s?
The 80-column IBM punch card from 1928 stayed the dominant mainframe input into the late 1970s.
Which onboard computer built by MIT guided Apollo 11 to the Moon in July 1969?
The MIT-built Apollo Guidance Computer guided Apollo 11 with tiny erasable and fixed memory.
Which early computer correctly predicted the 1952 presidential election on CBS television?
UNIVAC I predicted an Eisenhower landslide on CBS in 1952 and made computers famous overnight.
What happened to Pets.com in 2000, making the retailer a symbol of the dot-com bust?
Pets.com spent heavily on advertising, including a Super Bowl commercial starring its sock-puppet mascot.
During the dot-com boom, investors backed many fast-growing internet startups despite their lack of what?
Many startups spent heavily to win customers, betting that a large audience would eventually make the business profitable.
Which country ended its direct stewardship of ICANN-related internet naming functions in 2016?
The handover followed years of debate over how to make oversight of internet naming more international.
At the height of the dot-com boom, AOL announced a merger with which media company?
The deal joined AOL's internet access business with a media company whose brands included CNN, HBO and Warner Bros.
Founded in 1998, ICANN helps coordinate which part of the internet?
A shared domain-name system helps people worldwide reach the same destination when they type the same web address.
Which US president created a council to coordinate national Y2K preparations?
Clinton appointed John Koskinen to lead the effort, which coordinated federal agencies and worked with private businesses.