Computer trivia: What Amazon founder was the first-dot-com exec to be named Time’s Person of the Year?
A: Jeff Bezos.
Computer trivia: What Amazon founder was the first-dot-com exec to be named Time’s Person of the Year?
A: Jeff Bezos.
Computer trivia: What short-lived dot-com made founders Todd Krizelman and Stephan Paternot briefly rich when its stock soared 606 percent on its first day?
Answer: TheGlobe.com.
Computer trivia: What online service got slapped with a lawsuit by volunteer “Community Leaders” who said they were really employees and deserved back wages?
Answer: America Online.
Computer trivia: What file-sharing software was named for creator Shawn Fanning’s frizzy hair?
Answer: Napster.
Computer trivia: What company, while still called AuctionWeb, registered its first sale when bidding for a busted laser pointer topped out at $14?
Answer: eBay.com.
Computer trivia: What was the first fast-food restaurant to offer patrons 20 free minutes of Internet time?
Answer: Burger King.
Computer trivia: What short-lived company did Apple, IBM and Hewlett-Packard spawn to create platform-independent software?
Answer: Taligent.
Computer trivia: What online company grew from Pierre Omiyar’s efforts to find a broader market for his wife’s collection of Pez dispensers?
Answer: eBay.
Computer trivia: What does the “W” stand for on a WAP phone?
Answer: Wireless.
Computer trivia: What company was formed when IBM sold off its Selectric and printer divisions?
Answer: Lexmark.