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NOR AGAIN IS THERE ANYONE WHO LOVES OR PURSUES OR DESIRES TO OBTAIN PAIN OF ITSELF, BECAUSE IT IS PAIN, BUT OCCASIONALLY CIRCUMSTANCES OCCUR IN WHICH TOIL AND PAIN CAN PROCURE HIM SOME GREAT PLEASURE.

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*IT IS ACTUALLY THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF LOREM IPSUM – THE DEFAULT PLACEHOLDER TEXT

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IDENTIFY

NETSCAPE’S MARC ADREESSEN

This is a social news website, and calls itself the voice of the internet. Users can vote on links that they like or dislike and help decide what’s popular, or submit their own.

REDDIT

The company’s mascot(Y),a mushroom is quite a celebrity in Japan. He is even the hero of a Nintendo DS game As one type of advertising method, there are many types of Y such as

mother and father, which symbolize the plans that X(the company) offers.

X- NTT Docomo Y- Docomodake

Due to the effects of the US embargo on ___ the country has difficulty getting

access to Microsoft products so it launched its own OS called Nova

Cuba

This company was founded as Jomax Technologies in 1997. It’s

in-house produced ads, are termed “fun, edgy and a bit

inappropriate” by Bob Parsons, the CEO.

GoDaddy

In June 1984, Alexey Pajitnov created X while working for the Soviet Academy of Sciences at their Computer Center in Moscow. X’s name was derived from the combination of Greek numerical prefix for 4 and tennis, Pajitnov’s

favourite sport.

Tetris

Since 2000, this company’s logotype is an arrow leading from A to Z, representing

customer satisfaction (as it forms a smile); a goal was to have every product in the

alphabet

Amazon

iPad : Fujitsu :: iPhone : _____

iPad : Fujitsu :: iPhone : Cisco

iPad was previously registered by Fujitsu and iPhone by Cisco

Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from ______, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone.

You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.

We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks. I declare the global social

space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to

rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear.

That was the first paragraph of The Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace

Googlewhack refers to a certain contest. The term Googlewhack first appeared on the web at UnBlinking on 8 January 2002. The Whack Stack, at

googlewhack.com was created. Out of the 6,36,000 successfully submitted entries, few are :

counterprogramed oscar narrowcaster redos logocentrist birdies

werewolfs combustibly

It is the process of using two dictionary words such that the search returns only one result. Such a search is called a

‘whack’

The Golden Shield Project is a surveillance project operated by the Ministry of Public Security division of the government of

___. The project started in 1998 and began operations in November 2003. How do we know it better/What is its

significance ?

The Great Firewall of China

Identify the event

Microsoft recently hosted a mock funeral of Blackberry and iPhone when Windows Phone 7 was

launched

Originally the project A started as an academic project, in 1996. It was intended to consist of a client and server to

stream videos across a campus network. Now widely used, the icon of this software changes to one

wearing a Santa hat over the Christmas period.

VLC Player

They came in low with $160 million, so I came in at $700 million! And when they said: 'That's ridiculous! Are you out of

your mind,' I knew it was just a ploy." … and A's representatives kept walking out. Or rather storming. And shouting and swearing and hurling insults. But the B team

had been warned of A's tactics. "It was like a record being played, which we thought was pretty funny. It gave us a real

sense of strength." At $350 million, B's investors agreed: Sell. I returned to the table, alone, and once more said: "No." The contract was inked on Dec. 30, 1997, my 29th birthday. The

price: some three million A shares - worth $400 million at the time.

A- Microsoft B – Hotmail

This is Sabeer Bhatia’s account of how hotmail was sold

David Bradley : I may have invented it, but I think Bill (Gates) made it famous

it is also sometimes referred to as The Three Finger Salute.

What?

Ctrl + Alt + Del

Identify the company In 1969, Neil Armstrong spoke the famous words "one small

step for a man, one giant leap for mankind" from the moon on one of this company’s product

In 1974, its TV business was sold to the parent company of Panasonic

In 1983, the firm made history when the its DynaTAC 8000X was approved to become the world’s first commercial cellular

device

Motorola

Nuance Communications is a multinational computer software tech corporation providing speech and imaging applications.

In 2007, it acquired Tegic – from AOL. Tegic developed something that many of us use everyday.

T9 for sms

This first person shooter game series is set in World War II. The series was created by filmmaker Steven Spielberg

Call of Duty

Companies across the world experienced slight drops in productivity due to A, though the reported $120 million total

loss "spread out across the entire world isn't a huge loss, comparatively speaking". Some organizations even temporarily blocked B's website from workplace computers on the Friday it

was uploaded, particularly where it violated regulations against recreational games

Identify A and B

Pacman on Google

Connect

Companies founded by Bill Gates Traf –O- Data – what actually turned into Microsoft

Corbis – A media repository and BgC3 = Bill Gates Catalyst, 3 = third location beyond

MS and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Identify

Pinball, as an easter egg in Word 97

Where would you find this?

The Walk of Game, to honour the icons and pioneers of the video game industry like : Mario, Link, Sonic the Hedgehog, Nolan Bushnell, John Carmack

• What is Gray Powell’s claim to fame?

Misplacing the iPod which made its way to Gizmodo

Identify. Hint : Everyone has heard about him

The real Ajay Bhatt, co-inventor of the USB The Intel ad used an actor

Identify the logo

The UIDAI Project

1978 poster to explain something

If it’s there and you can see it—it’s real

If it’s not there and you can see it—it’s virtual

If it’s there and you can’t see it—it’s transparent

If it’s not there and you can’t see it—you erased it!

Memory/RAM

This is a 1975 patent drawing. Quite a revolutionary product. But the inventor was initially unable to properly monetise his idea. But later, giants like Toshiba had to pay him a substantial amount for

patent infringement. Who is the inventor? He is famous in India for various

other reasons as well.

Sam Pitroda. He is widely considered to have been responsible for India’s tech and communications

revolutions

This term in the IT sector refers to people who have been laid off from a multinational because their job has

been moved to India?

Bangalored

The cover of Coldplay’s album X&Y. The artwork for X&Y was designed by graphic design duo Tappin Gofton, formed by Mark Tappin and Simon Gofton. The image, which is visualized through a combination of colours and blocks, is a graphical representation of an early form of telegraph communication using a series of ones and zeros to communicate. The code was developed by in the 1870s, and was a widely used method of terrestrial and telegraph communication. What code?

Baudot, a character set predating ASCII. The symbol rate measurement, known as Baud is derived from the same name

This is the ‘Kill Screen’ of Pac-Man. What actually is a Kill Screen / How is it caused ?

The internal level counter is stored in a single byte. When it reaches 255, the value rolls over to zero. The screen is obscured, making the level unwinnable

Originally launched in 1993 as as IRC bot, this website’s extraordinary growth in the 1990s made it an

attractive site. Satyam took a 25% stake in the company. It was bought over by a huge sports tv network. It receives over 7 million hits daily on average and records in excess of 250

million pageviews per month

Cricinfo

X is a documentary about three computer addicts who redefined the world of media distribution

with their hobby homepage Y. How did Tiamo, a beer crazy hardware fanatic, Brokep a tree

hugging eco activist and Anakata – a paranoid hacker libertarian – get the White House to

threaten the Swedish government with trade sanctions? X explores what Hollywood’s most hated pirates go through on a personal level.

Id X and Y

X- Away from the Keyboard Y – The Pirate Bay

What is this a play on ?

iPhone’s reception problems and Steve Jobs solution to just hold the device differently

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CONNECT

Default test 2d image (the first lady of the internet)

Default 3d rendered test object

Default/most used test text

Companies collectively referred to as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

(1)Bill Gates (2)Guilty Spark (3)Ranbir Kapoor Connect: Halo. (1)is the owner of the publishers of Halo. (2)is a Halo character. (3) Ranbir Kapoor stars as a Halo game developer in Bachna ae Haseeno

Deepak Parekh, Kiran Karnik, Mahindra

Connect : The Satyam fiasco

Connect

Connect : UNIX Bourne Trilogy-Reference to the Bsh and Bash Fish – The Fairly Interactive Shell And the XKCD cartoon referencing to the UNIX Epoch

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MEGACONNECT

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