HomeQuizA Brief History of the Computer Told from the 1990s: A Quiz
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1. In the 1970s, which pair of American inventors on the West Coast produced the first personal computer to appeal to a broad market?

2. Beginning in 1994, which American software company offered a simple point-and-click interface for browsing the Internet?

3. Which dominant technology company was founded by two young men who got their start stringing rubber hoses across roadways?

4. Where were the personal computer, graphical user interface, handheld mouse, and Ethernet all first developed?

5. About the size of a sewing machine, the Osborne I of 1981 was an ancestor of what computer product?

6. What U.S. Navy officer was instrumental in developing high-level computer programming languages?

7. What California company introduced the first pocket calculator as well as a successful line of computers, printers, and peripherals?

8. What simple method of communicating with a computer evolved from such 1960s and 1970s innovations as the tiled screen, the mouse, and the icon?

9. An agricultural area once known as the “Valley of the Heart’s Delights” became synonymous with personal computer manufacturing and software and then Internet-based businesses in the 1980s and ’90s. What is it?

10. What was the first full-length animated motion picture, released in 1995, to be completely computer-generated?

11. What device did Robert Noyce in California and Jack Kilby in Texas independently file patent applications for in 1959, without which the Internet boom of the 1990s would have never happened?