Tech That Changed Everything

What this quiz asks

• Which company's research lab built the Alto, the machine that introduced the desktop-style graphical interface?
• Who created the Python programming language?
• Which chip, released by Intel in 1971, was the world's first commercially available microprocessor?
• The Bluetooth wireless standard is named after a 10th-century Scandinavian king.
• Select ALL of these that are correctly paired with their creator.
• Douglas Engelbart's 1968 'Mother of All Demos' gave the world its first public look at which device?
• Robert Metcalfe co-invented which networking technology at Xerox PARC in the 1970s?
• Put these breakthroughs in order, oldest first.
• On 1 January 1983 ARPANET switched from NCP to which protocol suite?
• Who developed the A-0 system, widely regarded as the first compiler?
• Claude Shannon founded information theory with which 1948 paper?
• The first message sent over ARPANET in 1969 was cut short after two letters when the system crashed.
• Select ALL of these that were developed at Bell Labs.
• Select ALL of these companies that were founded during the 1970s.
• What did Tim Berners-Lee call the first web browser he wrote?
• Was the QWERTY keyboard layout first designed for typewriters in the 1870s?
• GPS was originally built and operated by which organisation?
• Which two companies jointly defined the audio compact disc standard?
• Put these milestones in order, earliest first.
• In what year did Richard Stallman announce the GNU Project?