Quiz Monkey
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Quiz Monkey |
| General |
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| Founded in 2008 in San Francisco by Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia – valued in March 2015 at $20 billion: allows you to list, find and book temporary lodgings |
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Airbnb |
| Launched in 1995 by Yahoo!: probably the most popular web search engine, until the arrival of Google; discontinued in 2011 |
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AltaVista |
| Founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos – who overtook Warren Buffet and Bill Gates in 2018 to become the world's richest person (with a net wealth of $112 billion) |
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Amazon |
Owner of the internet domain name aa.com
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American Airlines |
| Yahoo!'s translation website – named after a creature in Douglas Adams's Hitch–Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy; replaced in 2012 by Microsoft's Bing Translator |
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Babel Fish |
| The BBC's audio streaming service (for podcasts and radio programmes): replaced the iPlayer Radio service for UK users in October 2018 |
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BBC Sounds |
| Owner of the internet domain name diy.com |
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B&Q |
| Described by its founder, Whitney Wolfe Herde, as a "feminist dating app": in hetero–sexual matches, only female users can make the first contact with matched male users |
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Bumble |
| Founded in 1995 by the French–born Iranian–American Pierre Omidyar |
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eBay |
| Founded in 2004 by former Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg; 64 million users by 2008 |
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Facebook |
| Social networking site: founded in 1999 by Steve and Julia Pankhurst of Barnet, Hertfordshire; bought by ITV for £120 million in 2005, and sold for £25 million in 2009 (after losing critical market share to other sites such as Facebook) |
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Friends Reunited |
| Founded in 1998 in Menlo Park, California, by Sergey Brin and Larry Page |
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Google |
| Combination of two words, found in a dictionary, that return only one hit on Google. Term coined in 2001, popularised in the UK by comedian Dave Gorman from 2003 |
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Googlewhack |
| Social media platform, created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger and launched in 2010 |
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Instagram |
| Founded in 1998 by Brent Hoberman and Martha Lane Fox |
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lastminute.com |
| Non–profit social network, founded in 2016 by German software developer Eugen Rochko and named after a prehistoric mammal: gained 30,000 users in April 2022 following Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter |
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Mastodon |
| Massachusetts–based employment website, founded in 1994 by Jeff Taylor |
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monster.com |
| Music streaming service, launched in 1999 by Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker; closed in 2001 by a Californian court; bought by Californian software company Roxio, which relaunched it as an online music store; bought in 2011 by streaming rival Rhapsody, which is now known by this name |
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Napster |
| Streaming and video–on–demand company: founded in Scotts Valley, California in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph; website launched April 1998 |
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Netflix |
| Film review website, founded in 1998 by Senh Duong: awards films a "freshness" rating |
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Rotten Tomatoes |
| Best–selling mobile phone 'app' that recognises songs: its name is also the magic word used by Billy Batson to transform into Captain America |
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Shazam |
| Started as a Twitter feed in 2009 by Julian Halpern; spawned a TV sitcom starring William Shatner, and a New York Times No. 1 bestselling book |
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Shit My Dad Says |
| Virtual assistant on Apple devices (including iPhones, iPads, Mac PCs, Apple Watch, Apple TV and smart speakers) |
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Siri |
| Mobile app created by three students at Stanford University, launched in 2010: for sending pictures that don't get stored on the recipient's device; originally (before launch) named Picaboo |
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Snapchat |
| Music, podcast, and video streaming service, founded in Stockholm by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon, in 2006; officially launched on 7 October 2008 |
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Spotify |
| Video–sharing app launched in China in 2017 (but only available outside China): by 2019 it was the seventh
most downloaded mobile app of the 2010s |
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TikTok |
| Social media platform founded in October 2021 by Donald Trump (and named without irony); launched in February 2022 |
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Truth Social |
| Online news and social networking service, launched in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams; had over 100 million users by 2012, and over 300 million by 2016 |
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Twitter |
| Mobile app created in 2009, by Garrett Camp and Travis Kalanick in San Francisco, for booking taxis |
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Uber |
| London–based, proprietary geocode system designed to identify any location on the surface of the Earth with a resolution of about 3 metres (9.8 ft) – founded in 2013; founders include quizzer and Only Connect question–setter Jack Waley–Cohen |
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what3words |
| Founded in 2006 by the Sunshine Press; Julian Assange is editor–in–chief and one of its directors |
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WikiLeaks |
| Founded in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger |
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Wikipedia |
| Founded in January 1994, by Jerry Yang and David Filo, as "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web"; renamed three months later, after a race of primitive humanoid creatures in Gulliver's Travels |
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Yahoo! |
| Founded in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees; first posting was Me at the Zoo (19 seconds), featuring and uploaded by Jawed Karim, one of the founders; bought by Google in November 2006 (i.e. 21 months later) for $1.65 billion |
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YouTube |
| www.gosh.nhs.uk |
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Great Ormond Street Hospital |
| www.thedogsdoodahs.com sells |
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Greetings cards |
| Minimum age at which you can use Facebook |
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13 |
| Number of characters allowed in a tweet (increased from 140 in November 2017) |
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280 |
| @ABCJustin is the Twitter name of |
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Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury |
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