Before it was squished into rainbow snakes by millions of kids, Play-Doh had a very different, very boring job in 1930s American homes. What was it originally sold as?

In 1991, computer scientists at the University of Cambridge pointed a camera at a single object and streamed it to their office network. What were they watching, in what became the world's first webcam?

The very first text message, sent in December 1992 from a computer to a mobile phone, contained a two-word holiday greeting. What did it say?

You've used it countless times, but the name "Wi-Fi" is famously misunderstood. What does "Wi-Fi" actually stand for?

The popular story claims the QWERTY keyboard layout was deliberately designed to do one specific thing to typists. What is that widely repeated claim?

Stumper. We call software glitches "bugs," and the term is often credited to a famous 1947 incident involving a real insect in the Harvard Mark II computer. What kind of insect was it?