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• Silicon Valley Tech Culture

Which company introduced the video-conferencing platform Zoom in 2013?

Answer

Zoom Video Communications

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• Silicon Valley Tech Culture

Which company released the first production electric sports car, the Roadster, in 2008?

Answer

Tesla

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• Silicon Valley Tech Culture

Which company developed the team-messaging service Slack from an internal tool used for the game Glitch?

Answer

Tiny Speck

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• Silicon Valley Tech Culture

Which company created GitHub, the software-development collaboration platform, in 2008?

Answer

GitHub

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• Silicon Valley Tech Culture

What was the original name of Airbnb when it launched in San Francisco in 2008?

Answer

AirBed & Breakfast

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What was Uber called before the ride-hailing company shortened its name in 2011?

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UberCab

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Which company launched LinkedIn, the professional networking site, in May 2003?

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LinkedIn

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What is the maximum total size of an IPv4 packet, including its header?

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65,535 bytes

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• Wi-Fi And The Internet

What did the world’s first webcam monitor at Cambridge University’s computer laboratory?

Answer

A coffee pot

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• Wi-Fi And The Internet

What was the name of the first computer worm to spread widely through the Internet in 1988?

Answer

Morris worm

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• Wi-Fi And The Internet

Which Internet time-synchronization protocol normally uses UDP port 123?

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Network Time Protocol

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Which protocol did Bram Cohen create and release in 2001 for peer-to-peer file distribution?

Answer

BitTorrent

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