Tag: science & technology

COBOL stands for Common Business Oriented Language. It is a programming language designed for business, finance, and administrative systems, first developed in 1959.

BING is backronymed as 'Because It's Not Google'. This is a humorous reference to Google being the dominant search engine, and Microsoft positioning Bing as the alternative.

FORTRAN stands for Formula Translation (or Formula Translating). It is a general-purpose, compiled programming language designed for numeric computation and scientific computing, first developed in 1957 by IBM.

DELAG (German Airship Travel Corporation) was founded in 1909 and operated zeppelin flights, making it the world's first airline. KLM, founded in 1919, is often confused as the first because it's the oldest airline still operating under its original name, not the first ever.

KLM (Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij) is the flag carrier airline of the Netherlands, founded in 1919. It remains the oldest airline still operating under its original name and is headquartered in Amsterdam with its main hub at Schiphol Airport.

The Concorde supersonic passenger airliner made its first flight on March 2, 1969, in Toulouse, France. This revolutionary aircraft entered commercial service in 1976 and could cross the Atlantic in about 3.5 hours.

Lufthansa is Germany's flag carrier airline, founded in 1953 and headquartered in Frankfurt. It is one of the largest airlines in Europe and a founding member of the Star Alliance alliance.

Dobrolyot was established in 1923 as the first Soviet civil airline, operating flights between Moscow and Nizhni Novgorod. In 1932, it was reorganized and renamed as Aeroflot, which became the national airline of the Soviet Union and later Russia.

Air India was originally founded as Tata Airlines in 1932 by J.R.D. Tata. It was renamed Air India in 1946 after being nationalized, and later became India's national carrier.