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Cyber Quest


Questions:

1. What did Rod Canion, Bill Murto and Jim Harris found in 1982?

2. When is a Web site said to have ``sticky content''?

3. What famous product did the ``The Saint'' launch by using it in an eponymous, famous serial in the 90s?

4. Expand SOBO.

5. Who owns, as a joint venture with Excite@Home, Work.com?

6. In a break from tradition, who voted the PC ``Machine of the year'', instead of a human, in 1982?

7. Where was Gopher, the text-based information retrieval system, developed?

8. Which cult computer game, invented in 1985, takes its name from the Greek word for ``four''?

9. Who founded Atari Inc?

10. What is metabrowsing?

Answers:

1. Compaq Computer Corporation.

2. When there is a notion that a site has a compelling reason for users to frequently come back.

3. Nokia 9000 Communicator.

4. Small Office Business Office.

5. The Dow Jones Company.

6. Time Magazine.

7. University of Minnesota.

8. Tetris.

9. Nolan Bushnell.

10. Combining information from multiple Web sites inside a single, continuous scrollable page.

V.V. Ramanan

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