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What Was The First Commercial USB Flash Drive Called?

SlimDrive
FlashDisk
ThumbDrive
DiskOnKey

Answer: ThumbDrive

While it certainly feels like the ubiquitous USB flash drive has always been around, the first commercial USB-based flash drive didn’t appear on the market until 2000.

Introduced by Trek Technology, a hardware firm based out of Singapore, the original flash drive bore the name ThumbDrive and sported a whopping 8MB of storage–a little over four times the storage capacity of the 3.5″ floppy drives the ThumbDrive sought to replace. Later that year IBM released their own flash-based USB storage key known as the DiskOnKey.

Despite the best efforts of both companies to defend patents and control flash drive production, the market was quickly flooded with unauthorized knock-offs. The previous king of portable storage, the floppy disk, was quick driven into retirement.

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Hard

Saccadic Masking Is a Cognitive Phenomenon Wherein We Can’t See What Moving?

Objects With Very Low Contrast Objects Aligned With The Sun
Objects During Eye Movement Objects On The Horizon

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Hard

Many Simpsons Characters Are Named After?

Cartoonists Streets
Illinois State Parks Pilots

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The British Royal Navy Considered Rations Of What Foodstuff A Military Secret?

Black Tea Carrots
Lime Juice Rum

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Super Glue Was Invented In Researchers’ Quest To Create?

Gun Sights Dental Fillings
Synthetic Lacquer Lubricant

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Hard

A Common Spike Used In Surveying Is Made From The Old Parts Of?

Lawn Aerators Paving Machines
Cotton Pickers Wood Chippers

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Easy

The Famous Pont Des Arts Bridge In Paris Was Damaged In 2014 By Hundreds Of?

Padlocks Seagulls
Obese Tourists Protestors

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The First High Definition Movie Pirated Was?

Serenity Hitch
Underworld: Evolution The Fifth Element

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The First Large Mammals Sent To Space That Survived Were?

Dogs Wolverines
Sloths Chimpanzees

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Easy

What Food, When Properly Sealed, Keeps Forever?

Smoked Salmon SPAM
Honey Beef Jerky

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Hard

Which Iconic Video Game Character Was Created As A Result Of An Internal Company Contest?

Sonic the Hedgehog Super Mario
Donkey Kong Link