This man started a site for storing a few physics papers temporarily. Slowly, people wanted the docs to last forever. Out of this a very popular service was born.

Who is he, and what is the site he created?

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Logik, shenoyvarun86, googboog, akhi, shrik, Mo, AmK, Aparna, Thejas V R and Rogi

This dude, a super famous blogger had successfully hid his identity for many years and apparently even his employees did not know his name. His blog recently got acquired, bringing him to limelight. Who he? What blog did he write?

Cracked by: shrik, umang, Rogi, Raghuvansh, googboog, Logik, Bharath, shenoyvarun86, akhi, Aparna, Dibyo, Thejas V R, Shwetha Maiya and Qbrain

This is the famed creator of a controversial tool that has large parts of its industry up in arms. Who is he and what’s the tool?

Clue - follow the blue ribbons:

Sorry for the late post ppl.

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A guest question from shenoyvarun86.

Simple - identify the man in the picture below. Pay attention to the props in the pic. And ,oh, his grandfather was famous.

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First few iterations of a now ubiquitous and advanced device. Identify the device, cookie points if you identify 1, 2 and 3 here.

2.

3.

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Programming obscuridae… What’s the connection?

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What it is?

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Recent reconstruction of what?

Excuse the blurriness, these are self-made screenshots from a Youtube video :-(

Cracked By: Raghuvansh, Anubhav, Aparna, Mo, udupendra, googboog, kriskingle, varuns88, sidsen, AmK, Rogi, Thejas V R, shenoyvarun86, Logik, malcaluffin and Ruthvik

Awesome question from shenoyvarun86.

Sound clip 1 was first used in 2. Now heard in most geek/action/sci-fi/adventure movies.. What is 1 called?

1. [audio:http://boiledbeans.net/audio/aaawww.mp3]
   Audio

2. 

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What are they trying to sell in this weird ad? (is that Chewbacca and the Frankenstein’s Monster?)

The logo on the bottom right should be helpful.

Cracked by: Thejas V R, shyam, Raghuvansh, varuns88, Shwetha Maiya, sidsen, udupendra, Dibyo, Arun Krishnamoorthy, googboog, Rogi, krudebox, Anubhav, Rohan D, Logik, shrik, shenoyvarun86, mankuTimma, teju, Aparna, Bharath, Manish Achuth, kriskingle, reddevil_ani and AmK