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- What was the first mobile phone to market with a capacitive touchscreen?
- Who described the Internet as a series of tubes?
- What was the first high-definition home video format available to consumers?
- What was the first FIFA World Cup to be fully filmed in 4K?
- There were 1,000 Internet devices in 1984. By 1992, that figure reached...
- The first webcam ever was deployed at Cambridge University, what was it designed to monitor?
Latest Trivia
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30 The Motorola DynaTAC was the first commercial mobile phone released in 1983. What was its price?
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30 All of these tech founders and CEOs stepped away for a stint before returning to the helm, except...
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30 Who famously said: "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home"?
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70 What kind of company was Nokia when it was founded by Finnish engineer Fredrik Idestam in 1865?
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50 Which of these companies was not started by Elon Musk?
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50 Who were the 3 founders of Apple? Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and ...?
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10 Where did the name "Bluetooth" come from?
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70 What was the first wristwatch with the ability to make phone calls?
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10 Which company invented the hard disk drive?
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70 Did you know, there was a CPU socket that accepted both Intel and AMD chips?
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50 What was the first game controller with vibration feedback?
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30 Valve co-founder Gabe Newell is a former Microsoftie: Which game did he port to Windows 95 during his tenure?
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50 You've probably seen a 3.5-inch floppy disk, but what were the dimensions of the technology's first iteration?
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10 What was the first computer to win a chess match against a world champion (under regular time constraints)?
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90 Which of these materials is the best conductor of heat?
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30 How much did the Neo Geo game console cost when it launched in 1990?
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50 In the 1930s, which country built an analog computer that ran on water?
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10 Which of the following was not a x86 CPU maker?
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80 Before Google's mobile OS, do you know what was Android developed for?
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70 The first virus to target mobile phones affected devices running which OS?
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70 If one PC creates a noise level of 20dB and another makes 40dB of noise, roughly how much louder is the second computer?
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10 What was the first widely-used web browser?
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80 What's the biggest tech acquisition in history?
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90 Which of these was the most expensive domain name sale?
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80 Before emerging as the iconic Grand Theft Auto, what was the original GTA going to be called?
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80 The ghosts in the original Pac-Man had unique AI traits, which one was the least predictable?
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80 In old PCs, what was the function of the "Turbo" button?
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90 How many websites are on the Internet (as of March 2023)?
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70 In tech culture, the term "vaporware" was first used in reference to which product?
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30 The first 5MB hard drive weighed approximately...
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90 Which is the most efficient keyboard layout?
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30 What was the first personal computer to be offered with a graphical user interface?
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50 When was the first SMS text message sent?
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70 Sony's PlayStation 2 external design wasn't an original concept, instead it was borrowed from which unreleased console?
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70 QR codes were invented back in 1994 as a way to track?
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90 Which search engine almost bought Google in the 1990s?
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80 The Diamond Edge 3D was Nvidia's first graphics card. Released in 1995, it sold as a complete entertainment package featuring: 2D/3D acceleration, an integrated sound card, games, and what else?
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90 Who created Siri?
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90 Registered on March 15, 1985, which was the first domain name on the Internet?
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10 A grand price fixing scheme that took place between 1998-2002 involved over a dozen makers, of what PC component?
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10 Without attaching additional power cables, how much can a PCIe x16 graphics card draw from the motherboard's slot?
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30 The PlayStation 4 was powered by a GPU roughly equal to what PC graphics card?
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10 The first computer mouse: how many buttons did it have, and what material was it made of?
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10 1024 Gigabytes is equal to 1 Terabyte; 1024 Terabytes is equal to 1 Petabyte; How many Gigabytes are in a Petabyte?
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70 What was the first handheld game console to ship with a color display?
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90 The original NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) 8-bit processor was manufactured by?
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80 How much did the first CD recorder cost?
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90 What was the first computer virus released in the wild?
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90 Before changing its name to Seagate, the storage giant was known by what name?
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80 All of these products eventually launched, but they were once feared to be vaporware, except for...?
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