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REVIEWER TECH TRIVIA EDITION #2

TECH COMPANY AND ITS

CREATOR
Apple Inc. The first computer program was written by Ada
Creator: Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald
Lovelace in 1842 for Charles Babbage's Analytical
Wayne
Engine.
Microsoft Corporation The first electronic computer, called the Electronic
Creator: Bill Gates and Paul Allen Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), was built
Google LLC
in 1946.
Creator: Larry Page and Sergey Brin The first web browser was called WorldWideWeb and
was created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990.
Facebook, Inc.
The first commercial text message was sent in 1992.
Creator: Mark Zuckerberg, Andrew McCollum,
Eduardo Saverin, Chris Hughes, and Dustin The first smartphone, called the IBM Simon, was
Moskovitz released in 1993.
The first video game, called Spacewar!, was created in
Amazon.com, Inc.
1962.
Creator: Jeff Bezos
The first computer mouse was invented in 1963 by
Tesla, Inc. Douglas Engelbart.
Creator: Elon Musk, JB Straubel, Martin Eberhard,
The first website was launched on August 6, 1991 by Tim
Marc Tarpenning, and Ian Wright
Berners-Lee.
Twitter, Inc. The first Apple computer, called the Apple I, was
Creator: Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams released in 1976.
The first search engine, called Archie, was created in
Uber Technologies, Inc.
Creator: Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp 1990.
The first email was sent in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson.
Netflix, Inc. The first computer virus, called the Creeper Virus, was
Creator: Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph
created in 1971.
PayPal Holdings, Inc. The first successful hard disk drive was the IBM 350,
Creator: Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, and Elon Musk which was introduced in 1956.
The first computer modem, called the Bell 101, was
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES AND introduced in 1958.
ITS CREATOR The first computer printer, called the IBM 3800, was
1. C
introduced in 1976.
Creator: Dennis Ritchie
2. C++ The world's first 1TB hard drive was released by IBM in
Creator: Bjarne Stroustrup 2007.
3. Java
Creator: James Gosling
The first Apple iPhone was released in 2007.
4. Python The first tweet was sent by Jack Dorsey, the co-founder
Creator: Guido van Rossum of Twitter, on March 21, 2006.
5. JavaScript
Creator: Brendan Eich
The first 3D printer was created in 1986 by Chuck Hull.
6. Ruby The first version of the popular open-source operating
Creator: Yukihiro Matsumoto system Linux was released in 1991 by Linus Torvalds.
7. Swift
Creator: Chris Lattner
The first public demonstration of virtual reality was
8. PHP given by Ivan Sutherland in 1968.
Creator: Rasmus Lerdorf The first commercial digital camera, called the Dycam
9. Go
Creators: Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson
Model 1, was released in 1990.
10. Rust The first artificial intelligence (AI) program, called the
Creator: Graydon Hoare Logic Theorist, was created in 1955 by Allen Newell and
11. Kotlin
Creator: JetBrains
J.C. Shaw.
12. TypeScript The first computer to win a chess match against a
Creator: Microsoft reigning world champion was Deep Blue, developed by
13. Perl
Creator: Larry Wall
IBM, which defeated Garry Kasparov in 1997.
14. Objective-C The first website to go live on the internet is still online
Creator: Brad Cox and Tom Love today, and can be found at
15. Scala
Creator: Martin Odersky
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html.