Internet & Technology

"B4N" is a common internet slang abbreviation where "B" stands for "Bye", "4" stands for "for", and "N" stands for "now".

In early mobile texting and chat slang, "*!" was sometimes used as a shorthand representation for "Starbucks" (the asterisk representing a star, and the exclamation mark representing "bucks" or a stylized "B").

"Tks" (or "tx") is a widely used abbreviation for "Thanks" in text messaging and online chat.

Steve Wozniak did not permanently drop out of college; although he took a break to co-found Apple, he later returned to UC Berkeley and completed his degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences in 1987. Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Steve Jobs all famously dropped out of college and did not return to finish their undergraduate degrees.

3D printing (specifically stereolithography) was invented by Chuck Hull in the United States in 1983, and he patented the technology in 1986.

Samsung is a major multinational conglomerate headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea.

On a standard QWERTY keyboard, the top row of letters starts with Q-W-E-R-T-Y. The first five letters from the left are Q, W, E, R, and T.

ISP stands for Internet Service Provider, which is a company that provides individuals and organizations access to the Internet. Other options are incorrect fabrications.

South Korea is globally recognized for having some of the fastest average internet connection speeds and most developed broadband infrastructure in the world.

LAN stands for Local Area Network, which is a computer network that interconnects computers within a limited area such as a residence, school, laboratory, or office building.

eBay was founded by Pierre Omidyar on September 3, 1995, originally under the name AuctionWeb.

Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 as an online bookstore, which later grew to become the world's largest online retailer.

WWW stands for World Wide Web, which is an information system where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators.

Internet Explorer is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included in the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems starting in 1995.

URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator, which is a colloquial reference to a web address used to specify where a resource is located on a computer network.

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language, which is the standard markup language used to create and structure web pages.