This magazine cover is incomplete.

Due to a mishap involving an FTP site, someone else should have been on that cover. Who, and why?

Note: it’s not the guy whose head is cropped off. It’s someone else, who is missing altogether…

Cracked only by udupendra!

Answer

James “Kibo” Parry is the person missing from this list.

Kibo was the USENET acronmy of James Parry, who went around commiting lots of mischief on the internet at around that time (His antics were very popular since they didn’t really harm anyone).

After Kibo found out that Ross Perot (head of EDS/ Perot Data Systems) was standing for US president (along with Bill Clinton and George H Bush), he too went ahead and started a spoof campaign for the office of president. The nomination was archived by a university, and accidentally mirrored by the US White House, so he did, for some time, stand for president :-)

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Few of the many other things which share this popular computer technology’s name. Which technology?

Cracked by: udupendra , Rohan , Dibyo , akhi , gammafunction , svgreatest , joe , Phani , jayanth , varuns88 , rajeshvj , insufferablejake , Rohit J.

udupendra, Rohan, Dibyo, akhi, gammafunction, svgreatest, joe, Phani, jayanth, varuns88, rajeshvj, insufferablejake and Rohit J

Good old-fashioned trivia: Who is he and what is his claim to fame?

Cracked by Goyal , Rohan , udupendra , Debasish , jayanth , varuns88 and rajeshvj.

Answer

Brian Eno, creator of the (in)famous Windows 95 startup sound. Some missed out the second part, but i’m feeling generous :)

Goyal, Rohan, udupendra, Debasish, jayanth, varuns88 and rajeshvj

1 started his company as a part of a website which he had set up for information on 2. Who is he, which company did he start?

He is a billionaire now, btw.

1. 2.

Cracked by: joe , insufferablejake , varuns88 , Dibyo , jayanth , akhi , Goyal , Rohan , p vs np , svgreatest.

joe, insufferablejake, varuns88, Dibyo, jayanth, akhi, Goyal, Rohan, p vs np and svgreatest

This famous ad campaign featured many celebrities,

and created some others.

Which campaign? (and who is the “created” celebrity shown above?)

Cracked by joe , VikraM , jayanth , insufferablejake , Atul Mathew , gammafunction , Dibyo , Goyal , Anu , varuns88 , Wasi Manazir and bobo.

joe, VikraM, jayanth, insufferablejake, Atul Mathew, gammafunction, Dibyo, Goyal, Anu, varuns88, Wasi Manazir and bobo

Yes, Simple. Identify and Connect

Cracked by: Dibyo , varuns88 , joe , insufferablejake , Goyal , Phani , jayanth , Rohan , Abi , priyananda , prasanth , madhur , rajeshvj , malcaluffin , svgreatest , gammafunction.

Dibyo, varuns88, joe, insufferablejake, Goyal, Phani, jayanth, Rohan, Abi, priyananda, prasanth, madhur, rajeshvj, malcaluffin, svgreatest and gammafunction

Identify and connect the computer (1) to the politician in (2)

Cracked by insufferablejake , Goyal , Dibyo , gammafunction , joe , shyam , Rohan , varuns88 , madhur , Phani and svgreatest.

Answer

As part of a publicity stunt CBS used the UNIVAC (1) to predict the outcome of a US presidential election.

While the popular media and political pundits of the time were expecting his rival, Adlai Stevenson, to win the UNIVAC predicted a landslide in favour of Dwight Eisenhower(2), which is exactly what happened.

insufferablejake, Goyal, Dibyo, gammafunction, joe, shyam, Rohan, varuns88, madhur, Phani and svgreatest

Identify

This thing is quite famous and has made appearences in multiple famous titles.

Cracked by: insufferablejake , Goyal , joe , jayanth , abi , udupendra , madhur , prasanth , VikraM , Phani , varuns88 and priyananda.

insufferablejake, Goyal, joe, jayanth, abi, udupendra, madhur, prasanth, VikraM, Phani, varuns88 and priyananda

Who is he and what is he doing?

Cracked by Goyal , gammafunction , Rohan , akhi , yaksha , varuns88 , Dibyo , madhur , udupendra , svgreatest , Rey de Vaqueiros and BiGFooT.

Goyal, gammafunction, Rohan, akhi, yaksha, varuns88, Dibyo, madhur, udupendra, svgreatest, Rey de Vaqueiros and BiGFooT

Identify the magazine turned blog which these people co-author.

The third guy from the left famously appears like this elsewhere on the web (its him in the pic)

Cracked by: joe , Goyal , Dibyo , varuns88 , Abi , Anu , jayanth , gammafunction and akhi. Nice work!

joe, Goyal, Dibyo, varuns88, Abi, Anu, jayanth, gammafunction and akhi