Another contest, what is this world comming to. :-)
 

Here's the deal.

It's a Trvia... Not just any.

Giving away 5 hosting accounts. 100 gigs each, you have 3 months to burn it off. Unlimited domains and the works. From www.OXEO.com

Starting today September 19th ending the 23rd of september. 5 days, 5 questions, 5 winners, 5 hosting acohahahahas. If a question is not answered on any of the days we will move into the 24th and come up with a new one for that day and so forth.

Basically one winner a day, if you won the first day dont bother playing for the second. First with the answer wins. We'll keep it simple and stupid, so nobody can bitch and moan. :winkwink:

...and the question is?

First question:

The First Smiley :-) <---- yes that one.
Who came up with it's use/invented it.


You have until midnight to come up with the answer. First person to answer correct get's the first prize.

Scott Fahlman

Harvey Ball

Nabokov

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~ken/gallery.html

:-)The World's first smiley
found this cool article via The Register and WMLAH.com.

The smiley :-) and its many variants are an important (and fun!) part of the worldwide online social culture -- allowing emotions to be conveyed in plain text. It has been in widespread use since the early '80s, when it was first proposed. Yet the original message in which the smiley was invented had been lost -- until now. :-) After a significant effort to locate it, on September 10, 2002 the original post made by Scott Fahlman on CMU CS general bboard was retrieved by Jeff Baird from an October 1982 backup tape of the spice vax (cmu-750x). Here is Scott's original post:

19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman :-)
From: Scott E Fahlman <Fahlman at Cmu-20c>

I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers:

:-)

Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark
things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use

:-(

He looks like Henry Kissinger...

<img src="http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~ken/nabokov2.jpg">

I guess I won this contest (thanks Oxeo).

I do not push a lot of bandwidth and so if anyone would like to contact me with an offer for the prize, I am all ears.

Is that the right answer?

hershie is right

http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/20...0916016352.htm

NEWS
The birthday for the smiley, ":-)", has been found. According to Microsoft employee Mike Jones, a systems and networking research group employee at MS headquarters, it is September 19, 1982. Smiley's dad was Scott E. Fahlman, who proposed using the smiley as a joke marker in a message posted on a Carnegie Mellon University electronic bulletin board.

oxeo fucking rocks :thumbsup

And i evented the smiley...everyone knows that ; )

It appears to be. But what kind of contest is it? All there was to it was to enter "the first smiley" on google...

actually - cnn.com's search box

Hershie is right. Contact mike, alek or myself.

ICQ: 107027405

The reason it was so easy, wanted to give the newbies a break. Not all of them are internet savvy, besides a newbie uses less bandwith in 3 months :winkwink:

Tonight at midnight we'll have the next question. If not maybe even today.

I prefer google, it's more difficult to find porn on cnn.

Forest gump

omg u are not asking about smilies! cause u know mine pwns that one

here i will prove with the smiley graph :c)

(edited) forum didnt like smiley graph :/

:c) > :-)

oh gee, look my site is down. Great timing on getting an account with a new host!

ey did u know that ur host is down?

This was posted on xbiz days ago

http://boards.xbiz.com/showthread.php3?s=&threadid=7695

I'd like to congratulate hershie on winning. :GFYBand
Though we already have 1 winner, there are 4 more chances for people to win. We will be posting more trivia questions tommorow. :thumbsup

..with a little help from Al Gore, undoubtedly.

He got the idea from me, or purely coincidental. Dont visit that board at all. :winkwink:

Stay tuned for the next one.

Everyone knows the smiley was created by me....i demand a re-count.

Can you say Canadian Eh?

Here's the next question, I'm Canadian and proud so giving the fellow Canadians a shot. It's a little harder than the previous one :winkwink:

This is a "Who am I?" type of question. From the clues identify the famous Canadian

1) I was born in Ontario in 1879 and moved to New Brunswick.

2) I made a fortune in finance in New Brunswick and moved to England at the age of 31.

3) In England, I was elected to Parliament and purchased or founded a series of newspapers that became a newspaper empire

4) I was made a Lord and became a Cabinet Minister during World War I

5) During World War II, I was an influential member of Winston Churchill's war cabinet. My initial job was to look after aircraft production.

6) I retained close ties with Canada and in particular my native province.

Again you have until midnight, first to answer correct wins. :thumbsup

Max Aitken

better known to history as Lord Beaverbrook

William Maxwell Aitken,

Conrad Black

:)

Drum roll please ................. :GFYBand

and the winner is "just the village idiot".... ironic isn't it?
Congratulations. :thumbsup This was quesion 2 of 5. We will be continuing the trivia with the remainding 3 questions on monday.

Just the village idiot, please contact either my self @
[email protected] or NOTR @ [email protected] to collect the prize.

Congratz again to Just the village idiot and hershie, our 2 winners so far.

Whooohooo 3rd question.

Here goes:

EBON RIDDLE OF KING PUZZLEKHAMEN

During his travels in Egypt, the famous explorer and adventurer Alabama Smith stumbles upon the tomb of a not so famous Pharaoh. Having heard tales of a priceless idol rumored to lie within, Smith enters the tomb. He eventually finds the idol, lying on top of the sarcophagus of King Puzzlekhamen! Letting his excitement get the better of him, Smith grabs the idol, with the terrifying result of a stone slab sliding across the only entrance (and exit, for that matter), and a heavy grating sound as the ceiling slowly descends to crush him to powder. Luckily, Smith notices 5 stone levers on a wall, each colored blue, orange, red, white, and black. Also, he sees something inscribed on the top of the sarcophagus (in English, strangely enough). It reads: "Bore were robe orb." Thinking quickly, Smith pulls each of the levers at least once in a certain sequence. The ceiling stops its descent, the slab blocking the exit retracts, and Smith hurries out with the idol to enjoy fortune and fame.

What order did Smith pull the levers in to save his life?


First person with the correct answer wins the 3rd prize.

Enjoy
:winkwink:

blue, orange, red, black, white, black, red, black, red, orange, blue, black, orange, red, blue

The answer is blue, orange, red, black, white, black, red, black, red, orange, blue, black, orange, red, blue

damn you djsap

This one was a little tricky, but the title provided a useful hint. Each letter in the inscription stands for the color of one of the levers. 'E' stands for ebony, and thus black. The answer is blue, orange, red, black, white, black, red, black, red, orange, blue, black, orange, red, blue.

Winner should contact me or mike

[email protected]
ICQ: 107027405

4th question, 4th prize.

Sorry for the delay, been caught up with some work.

A worker for the CIA (Cybernetic Information Association, of course) is translating information into a code, so that competitors who might steal the information will not be able to make use of it. The worker is currently translating a word that you can find somewhere in this problem into this code. What number completes this word: 8 22 10 6 22 13 24 ?

First person with answer wins the 4th prize.

Enjoy :thumbsup

fuck...need 30 more minutes...dammit

287?

Contact me for your prize.

:thumbsup

:1orglaugh

AL GORE


Edited to include:

Note: My Al Gore answer was to the 1st question :) since he invented the internet I thought it was likely he also invented the smiley.

Contact me for the prize. Ignore the last post about the prize, pushed the wrong quote button.

Last question.

It's an easy one.

What's the area code to the CEO's phone number. HOUSE number.

Enjoy.

Also everyone who emailed me, give me a few days to get all the prizes and domains setup.

212

917

1-8-7 (on the mutha fuckin' cop)