Category: Rigged Timestamp
What is going on here?!
Cracked by: shrik, Raghuvansh, dineshk, badideabear and Rogi
Jordan Mechner’s Karateka game had an easter egg - insert the disc upside down into a regular floppy drive and it would play an upside down version of the game on screen!
Identify this parallel network that had research groups around the world going ga-ga for a while.
In fact, one of their concerts was broadcast on it:
Cracked by: dineshk, Ananth, badideabear, shrik, Dibyo, Sumanth Patlolla, Raghuvansh, Rogi, Manish Achuth, raklodramA, Jayaprakash B R, udupendra, Thejas V R, Rahulk and Shwetha Maiya
M-Bone, aka the Multicast Backbone -an experimental research network designed to allow multicasting. The Rolling Stones Voodoo Lounge 1994 tour concert from Texas was multicasted out on it.
Identify invention and inventor. He’s better known for a ‘bridge’ he created, FYI.
Cracked by: Urthstripe, Ananth, jowens, badideabear, Dibyo, shrey, Rogi, shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, dineshk, Raghuvansh, Thejas V R and udupendra
Charles Wheatstone’s Stereoscope. The inventor of the eponymous Wheatstone’s bridge also created one of the world’s first 3D viewing mechanisms.
What is this?
There is a wealth of information in the image
Cracked by: Ananth, dineshk, KK, badideabear, jowens, Dibyo, Anjul, Manish Achuth, vishwanath, Rogi, shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, Raghuvansh, s m muneer ali, krudebox, raklodramA, Thejas V R, udupendra and Rahulk
The first ever atomic clock
What it is?
Cracked by: Jayaprakash B R, Sajith T S, vrashabh, Sumanth Patlolla, shrik, Anjul, vishwanath, Manish Achuth, raklodramA, sandeep bhat, Tsunami, krudebox, Siddarth Pai, puneet_k, KK, vinayaknp, jins, Dibyo, jowens, Rogi, badideabear, Ananth, dineshk, Urthstripe, Shwetha Maiya, Bipin Banavalikar, Rahul Rajeev, Thejas V R, aditthya, Anonymous, hypertonic, udupendra, wanderlust, Raghuvansh and s m muneer ali
Computer Geek Barbie!
Identify experiment that’s been running since 1840.
Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Urthstripe, shrik, Ananth, jowens, KK, dineshk, Anand T R, Shwetha Maiya, Rogi, Manish Achuth, Dibyo, Sumanth Patlolla, Jayaprakash B R, raklodramA, sandeep bhat, krudebox, Siddarth Pai, badideabear, Bipin Banavalikar, Rahul Rajeev and Thejas V R
The Oxford Electric Bell.
First ever picture taken of a particular company. Which?
Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Urthstripe, Rogi, shrik, jowens, Jayaprakash B R, badideabear, shrey, dineshk and Ananth
PayPal
Connect
Cracked by: Jayaprakash B R, badideabear, Goyal, Sajith T S, Raghuvansh, Ananth, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, raklodramA, Anjul, udupendra, Siddarth Pai, shrik, jowens, s m muneer ali, dineshk and vishwanath
Facebook’s new campus is Sun’s ex campus. Wah.
What’s the ‘space’ connection?
Cracked by: badideabear, dineshk, shrik, Siddarth Pai, Rogi, Raghuvansh, raklodramA, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Ananth, vishwanath, Thejas V R, udupendra, Thiru, jowens, Shwetha Maiya and shenoyvarun86
Jeff Bezos (1) started a private space flight company called Blue Origin. Their first flight is named after Robert H Goddard (2). As an aside, Neal Stephenson (3) used to be an employee there.
Three kinds of what?
Cracked by: shrik, jowens, dineshk, badideabear, Rogi, Raghuvansh, raklodramA, jins, Aravind, Manish Achuth and Ananth
Taxons :) Zombie taxons, lazarus taxons, and elvis taxons - names given to taxons that have vague/incomplete ancestries :)
