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Know IT All Quiz - Macintosh

Our WhatIs.com Tech Term is Macintosh

The Macintosh was the first widely-sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI) and a mouse. Apple introduced the Macintosh (popularly known as the Mac) on January 24th, 1984.

Are you a Know-IT-All? Test your knowledge of tech vocabulary!

Secret Word of the Day
Twenty years ago, computers were usually referred to as either Apples or ____ -compatible. What’s the secret word?
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Acronym Challenge
What does the X in OS X stand for?
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Tech Trivia
How did people interact with computers before the introduction of the GUI?
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Word Scramble
Unscramble the letters to see a word for something simulated on a computer screen:
spokedt
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See specs for the original Mac and the commercial that introduced it.

Wikipedia has an entry about the Macintosh.

Apple offers a Macintosh product guide.

CNET News looks at the future of the Mac.

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The WhatIs.com Word of the Day is Long Term Evolution (LTE).

Tech Trivia
What is the WiMAX service that Sprint Nextel rolled out last month in Baltimore? (Hint: It rhymes with “home.”)
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Secret Word of the Day
In data transmission, this is the amount of data moved successfully from one place to another in a given time period. It’s often confused with bandwidth. What’s the secret word?
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IT Acronym Challenge
Wireless broadband consumers will likely have two choices in the U.S. domestic market: LTE and WiMAX. What does WiMAX stand for?
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Tech quiz of the day from WhatIs.com: How much do you know about VAR-to-VAR?

The WhatIs.com Word of the Day is VAR-to-VAR.

Tech Trivia
Don’t be a part of the problem. Be a part of the _______! What overused term is used by vendors as a catch-all for many technology products or services?
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In IT, this is a company that typically buys products in bulk from a manufacturer and then “adds value” to the original equipment by including specific software applications or other components. What’s the secret word?
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OEM is used to refer to the company that acquires a product or component and then reuses it or incorporates it into a new product with under its own brand name. What does OEM stand for?
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Tech Quiz of the Day from WhatIs.com: What do you know about iTunes U?

The WhatIs.com Word of the Day today is iTunes U.

Tech Trivia
What computer-based training network, developed in the 1960s, is often credited as the earliest example of a virtual community?
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Secret Word of the Day
This keyboard-oriented, text-only Web browser was developed at the University of Kansas primarily for students who used UNIX workstations. What is the secret word?
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Acronym Challenge
NSFNET was a network for research computing deployed in the mid-1980s that in time also became the first backbone infrastructure for the commercial public Internet. NET meant “network — what does NFS stand for?
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