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1. Who lives at 1835 73rd Ave NE, Medina, WA?

2. Which company’s vision statement is to “Empower Indians to create and share information and in the process, discover people”?

3. Which popular in-browser instant messaging program was founded by Sandy Jen, Seth Sternberg, and Elaine Wherry in 2005?

4. Asia’s first blog advertising community, launched in Malaysia in February 2007, is called?

5. Which Canadian company developed Flickr?

6. What does the chat or text messaging abbreviation ‘TANSTAAFL’ stand for?

7. To whom is this quote attributed: “When asked what I might do differently if I had to create Unix over again, I said I would add an ‘e’ to the ‘creat’ system call”!.

8. In colloquial tech lingo, what is ‘unstant messaging’?

9. Why is Rich Skrenta (in)famous in the computing community?

10. A bit of nostalgia. Name the lady considered the first ‘computer programmer’ and who has a programming language named for her.

1. Bill Gates.

2. ibibo Web Pvt. Ltd, the company behind Dwaar.com, ibibo.com etc.

3. Meebo

4. Nuffnang

5. Ludicorp in 2002.

6. There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.

7. Ken Thompson.

8. Minimising one’s IM window when a superior or boss walks by.

9. He wrote the Elk Cloner virus for the Apple II in 1982, a virus now considered the first microcomputer virus.

10. Augusta Ada King, countess of Lovelace.

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