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90s and 00s office nostalgia quiz
Think back to beige computers and screensavers. How much do you remember?
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Roughly how much data did a standard 3.5-inch high-density floppy disk hold?
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- 1. Roughly how much data did a standard 3.5-inch high-density floppy disk hold?
- A. 144 KB
- B. 1.44 MB (answer)
- C. 14.4 MB
- D. 144 MB
1.44 MB is less than a single modern smartphone photo. - 2. Which Microsoft Office assistant was shaped like a paperclip?
- A. Clippy (answer)
- B. Bob
- C. Cortana
- D. Rover
Officially named Clippit, it was retired in Office 2007. - 3. What was the name of Microsoft's instant messaging service that closed in 2013?
- A. ICQ
- B. AIM
- C. MSN Messenger (answer)
- D. Yahoo Chat
Users were moved over to Skype. - 4. Which company made the BlackBerry?
- A. Nokia
- B. Research In Motion (answer)
- C. Palm
- D. Ericsson
Research In Motion renamed itself BlackBerry Ltd in 2013. - 5. What did the Y2K bug relate to?
- A. Viruses in email
- B. Years stored as two digits (answer)
- C. Running out of IP addresses
- D. Leap seconds
Many systems stored 2000 as 00, risking confusion with 1900. - 6. Which Nokia phone, launched in 2000, became famous for being nearly indestructible?
- A. Nokia 3310 (answer)
- B. Nokia N95
- C. Nokia 8210
- D. Nokia Lumia
It also came with the much-loved game Snake II. - 7. What is 'fax' short for?
- A. Fast exchange
- B. Facsimile (answer)
- C. Factual text
- D. Fax-o-matic
Facsimile means an exact copy. - 8. Which card game shipped with Windows and was designed partly to teach mouse skills?
- A. Hearts
- B. Solitaire (answer)
- C. Poker
- D. Snap
Dragging cards helped users practise drag and drop. - 9. What does PDA stand for, as in a Palm Pilot?
- A. Personal digital assistant (answer)
- B. Portable data archive
- C. Private document app
- D. Pocket desktop adaptor
PDAs were the pocket organisers before smartphones. - 10. Which year did the first iPhone launch?
- A. 2005
- B. 2007 (answer)
- C. 2009
- D. 2010
Steve Jobs unveiled it in January 2007. - 11. Which search engine had a butler as its mascot?
- A. Lycos
- B. AltaVista
- C. Ask Jeeves (answer)
- D. Excite
Jeeves was retired in 2006. - 12. What was a 'Tamagotchi'?
- A. A games console
- B. A digital pet (answer)
- C. A pager
- D. A music player
Launched by Bandai in 1996, it needed feeding and cleaning.
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