History

Question 1

What is the first electronic general-purpose computer?

Answer 1

ENIAC

Question 2

Who is known as the father of modern computing?

Answer 2

Charles Babbage

Question 3

Who was the first computer programmer?

Answer 3

Ada Lovelace

Question 4

In what year was the first electronic computer developed?

Answer 4

1943

Question 5

What was the first commercially available microprocessor?

Answer 5

Intel 4004

Question 6

Which company created the first GUI-based operating system?

Answer 6

Xerox

Question 7

What was the first spreadsheet software?

Answer 7

VisiCalc

Question 8

In what year was the first email sent?

Answer 8

1971

Question 9

Who created the first email system?

Answer 9

Ray Tomlinson

Question 10

What was the first domain name ever registered?

Answer 10

Symbolics.com

Question 11

Who is the creator of the World Wide Web?

Answer 11

Tim Berners-Lee

Question 12

In what year was the World Wide Web invented?

Answer 12

1989

Question 13

What was the first search engine on the internet?

Answer 13

Archie

Question 14

What programming language was developed in the 1950s for scientific computing?

Answer 14

FORTRAN

Question 15

Which company developed Windows?

Answer 15

Microsoft

Question 16

In what year was Windows 95 released?

Answer 16

1995

Question 17

Which company introduced the Macintosh?

Answer 17

Apple

Question 18

What was the first social networking site?

Answer 18

SixDegrees.com

Question 19

What is the name of the first mobile phone with internet access?

Answer 19

Nokia 9000 Communicator

Question 20

In what year was Google founded?

Answer 20

1998

Question 21

What was the first video-sharing website before YouTube?

Answer 21

ShareYourWorld

Question 22

What was the first computer virus?

Answer 22

Brain (1986)

Question 23

What was the first open-source operating system?

Answer 23

Linux

Question 24

Who developed the first smartphone?

Answer 24

IBM (Simon Personal Communicator, 1992)

Question 25

What was the first web browser?

Answer 25

WorldWideWeb (Later renamed Nexus)

Question 26

What was the first programming language?

Answer 26

Assembly Language

Question 27

What was the first Apple computer model?

Answer 27

Apple I

Question 28

What was the first database management system?

Answer 28

IBM System R

Question 29

What was the first gaming console?

Answer 29

Magnavox Odyssey

Question 30

What was the first open-source web browser?

Answer 30

Mozilla Firefox (formerly Phoenix)

Question 31

In what year was Facebook launched?

Answer 31

2004

Question 32

What was the first instant messaging service?

Answer 32

ICQ (1996)

Question 33

Which company was the first to introduce 1GB flash storage?

Answer 33

IBM (2000)

Question 34

What was the first laptop?

Answer 34

Osborne 1 (1981)

Question 35

Which company was the first to use commercial cloud computing?

Answer 35

Amazon (AWS, 2006)

Question 36

In what year did Apple introduce the App Store?

Answer 36

2008

Question 37

What was the first antivirus software?

Answer 37

Reaper (1971)

Question 38

What was the first cyberattack?

Answer 38

Morris Worm (1988)

Question 39

What was the first game with a graphical user interface?

Answer 39

Spacewar! (1962)

Question 40

Who invented the first computer mouse?

Answer 40

Douglas Engelbart

Question 41

Where was the first version of Unix created?

Answer 41

AT&T Bell Labs

Question 42

In what year was the first website launched?

Answer 42

1991

Question 43

What was the first supercomputer?

Answer 43

Cray-1 (1976)

Question 44

What was the first Wi-Fi standard?

Answer 44

802.11 (1997)

Question 45

Which company was the first to introduce SSDs?

Answer 45

SanDisk

Question 46

What was the first AI program?

Answer 46

Logic Theorist (1956)

Question 47

What was the first commercial AI chatbot?

Answer 47

ELIZA (1966)

Question 48

What was the first cryptocurrency?

Answer 48

Bitcoin (2009)