Topic in Technology
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.
Part of Technology: 3 quizzes.
3 quizzes
Technology · Computers & Hardware
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.
Technology · Computers & Hardware
The chips that power games, AI and everything in between. A tough quiz on CPUs and GPUs: Nvidia, AMD and Intel, Moore's law, cores and threads, ARM versus x86, ray tracing, AI upscaling and the Taiwanese company that manufactures many of the world's most advanced processors.
Technology · Computers & Hardware
Open up a computer and name what you find. A beginner-friendly tour of the motherboard, power supply, ports, drives, cooling and the input and output devices on your desk, so the next time you buy or fix a computer you know exactly what every part does.