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1. Which European nation has become the first country in the world to declare Internet broadband access a legal right?

2. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, has confessed and apologised for which ‘unnecessary’ part of a Web address?

3. If Amazon has Kindle, then who will have ‘Nook’?

4. What resource was started by Col Needham and “some film-buff friends”, while Needham was working as an HP engineer?

5. ‘The IBM Mathematical Formula Translating System’ is commonly called…?

6. CDP-101, which made its debut in October 1982, was the first…? And who made it?

7. September 11 made history three years before the WTC attacks when the US Congress released the contents of a controversial and ‘infamous’ yet historical report on the Net. What report?

8. What is the nationality of Linus Torvalds?

9. In August 1997, Microsoft rescued which struggling Silicon Valley icon with a $150-million investment?

10. In which iconic game did names such as Bill Rizer, Lance Bean and The Red Falcon feature?

1. Finland

2. The forward slashes

3. Barnes & Noble

4. IMDB

5. Fortran

6. CD player made by Sony

7. The Starr Report, which led to the impeachment of President Clinton.

8. Finnish

9. Apple

10. Konami’s ‘Contra’.

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