Tech Quiz 6 | Tech Trivia
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Questions – Tech Quiz 6
- Which major tech company was originally called Cadabra Inc. before changing its name due to a misheard phone call?
- What inspired the naming of the computer term “bug” in the tech industry?
- What was the first product Apple ever made and what year was it released?
- Who co-founded NVIDIA and what significant contribution has the company made to gaming?
- What unique method did Sony use in the 1990s to check the quality of their TVs?
- In what year did IBM sell its PC division, and to which company?
- Which tech personality famously said, “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish,” and what is the origin of the quote?
- What was the original purpose of PayPal before it pivoted to an online payment system?
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ANSWERS – Tech Quiz 6
- Amazon was initially named Cadabra Inc. by Jeff Bezos in 1994 but was renamed after a lawyer misheard it as “cadaver.” The new name, Amazon, was chosen for the exotic and vast association, much like the Amazon River, aiming to reflect the scale of their vision.
- The term “bug” was popularized by Grace Hopper in 1947 when she discovered an actual moth causing a fault in a computer. The concept, however, dates back to Thomas Edison who used the term in his writings.
- Apple’s first product was the Apple I, released in 1976. Designed and hand-built by Steve Wozniak, this was one of the first personal computers and included a fully assembled circuit board.
- NVIDIA was co-founded by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem in 1993. The company has significantly impacted gaming through its Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), revolutionizing modern computer graphics and parallel computing.
- In the 1990s, Sony tested the quality of their TVs by using a chicken. They wanted to ensure their TVs could withstand a pecking from a chicken, mimicking a child poking the screen.
- IBM sold its PC division in 2005 to Lenovo, a Chinese technology company. This marked a strategic shift for IBM from hardware to focusing more on software and services.
- Steve Jobs famously used the phrase “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish” in his 2005 Stanford commencement address. The quote originally appeared in the final issue of “The Whole Earth Catalog” in the 1970s.
- PayPal was originally developed as a cryptography company for mobile devices before pivoting to a digital wallet.
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