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Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

Hypertext

  1. Vannevar Bush

  2. Hyper Kin

  3. Larry Bryan

  4. Kim Grass
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Vannevar Bush is credited with the concept of hypertext through his 1945 memex article. The other names are fictional or incorrect associations.

Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

Smalltalk

  1. Anne Chiang

  2. Al Gross

  3. Alan Kay

  4. Lee DeForest
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Alan Kay led the Smalltalk development team at Xerox PARC in the 1970s. Smalltalk pioneered object-oriented programming concepts.

Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

Linux

  1. Linus Torvalds

  2. Linus Goldmark

  3. Linux Pattrik

  4. Pattrik Linux
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Linus Torvalds created the Linux kernel in 1991 while a student in Finland. It became the foundation of the Linux operating system.

Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

Computer Mouse

  1. Douglas Cage

  2. Douglas C. Engelbart

  3. Edward Pattric

  4. Chi Shag
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Douglas Engelbart invented the computer mouse in 1964 at Stanford Research Institute. He demonstrated it in the famous 'Mother of All Demos' in 1968.

Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

FORTRAN

  1. John Philip

  2. Edward Brass

  3. John Backus

  4. Fort Kin
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

John Backus led the IBM team that developed FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslation) in the 1950s, the first widely used high-level programming language.