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Two centuries of computing in fifteen questions: Babbage's Analytical Engine and Ada Lovelace, wartime code-breakers, room-sized ENIAC, the transistor, the first personal computers, floppy disks, the Start button and the birth of the World Wide Web.
What is inside a computer and how it got here: motherboards, processors and graphics cards, and the history of computing from Babbage and ENIAC to the personal computer.
Before you start
You have 20 seconds for each question. When time runs out, the question counts as wrong.
Your first choice is the one that counts. It is checked straight away, with an explanation where there is one.
At the end you see your score and can go back through every question and its answer.
XP scales with your score. Replays earn XP only when you beat your previous best.
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