Brainteaser

Questions

1. What did Jim Ellis, who passed away recently, and Tom Truscott start in 1979?

2. Who makes the popular games Myst and Riven?

3. What is a Border Gateway Protocol?

4. Which three companies developed the CD-ROM XA (Compact Disk-Read Only Memory extended architecture)?

5. What is a B2E portal?

6. What is common to MARS, Serpent, Twofish and Rijndael?

7. What is the name given to a software that snatches e-mail addresses from the Web and sends out SPAM?

8. In Net lingo, what is ``pay-per-lead advertising''?

9. If Sun developed Java, who developed JavaScript?

10.If you are ``warm booting'' your PC, what are you doing?

Answers

1. Usenet.

2. Cyan Worlds.

3. It is a protocol for exchanging routing information between gateway hosts (each with its own router) in a network of autonomous systems.

4. Sony, Philips and Microsoft.

5. Business to Employee portal.

6. All are encryption algorithms.

7. Extractor or Crawler.

8. It's where the advertiser pays for each sales lead generated.

9. Netscape.

10. ``Restarting'' the computer but not from the power on button.

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