{"id":50547,"date":"2024-04-15T23:11:53","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T23:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/mcq\/?p=50547"},"modified":"2024-04-15T23:11:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T23:11:53","slug":"who-co-founded-hotmail-in-1996-and-then-sold-the-company-to-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/mcq\/who-co-founded-hotmail-in-1996-and-then-sold-the-company-to-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"Who co-founded Hotmail in 1996 and then sold the company to Microsoft?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n    <!-- Check if it's an AMP page -->\r\n            <!-- Non-AMP version -->\r\n        <div class=\"mcq-container\" data-quiz-id=\"quizState_6a97911178ed0\">\r\n                                            <div class=\"option\" data-option-key=\"option1\" data-is-correct=\"false\">\r\n                    Shawn Fanning                <\/div>\r\n                                            <div class=\"option\" data-option-key=\"option2\" data-is-correct=\"false\">\r\n                    Ada Byron Lovelace                <\/div>\r\n                                            <div class=\"option\" data-option-key=\"option3\" data-is-correct=\"true\">\r\n                    Sabeer Bhatia                <\/div>\r\n                                            <div class=\"option\" data-option-key=\"option4\" data-is-correct=\"false\">\r\n                    Ray Tomlinson                <\/div>\r\n                            \r\n            <!-- Feedback messages for non-AMP -->\r\n            <div class=\"feedback\" data-feedback=\"wrong\">Answer is Right!<\/div>\r\n            <div class=\"feedback\" data-feedback=\"right\">Answer is Wrong!<\/div>\r\n        <\/div>\r\n\r\n        <script>\r\n        document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function () {\r\n            var containers = document.querySelectorAll('.mcq-container');\r\n\r\n            containers.forEach(function(container) {\r\n                var options = container.querySelectorAll('.option');\r\n                var feedbackSelect = container.querySelector('[data-feedback=\"select\"]');\r\n                var feedbackWrong = container.querySelector('[data-feedback=\"wrong\"]');\r\n                var feedbackRight = container.querySelector('[data-feedback=\"right\"]');\r\n\r\n                options.forEach(function(option) {\r\n                    option.addEventListener('click', function() {\r\n                        var selectedOption = option.getAttribute('data-option-key');\r\n                        var isCorrect = option.getAttribute('data-is-correct') === 'true';\r\n\r\n                        \/\/ Remove previous selections\r\n                        options.forEach(function(opt) {\r\n                            opt.classList.remove('correct', 'incorrect');\r\n                        });\r\n\r\n                        \/\/ Add the correct\/incorrect class\r\n                        if (isCorrect) {\r\n                            option.classList.add('correct');\r\n                            feedbackRight.hidden = false;\r\n                            feedbackWrong.hidden = true;\r\n                        } else {\r\n                            option.classList.add('incorrect');\r\n                            feedbackRight.hidden = true;\r\n                            feedbackWrong.hidden = false;\r\n                        }\r\n\r\n                        \/\/ Hide select feedback\r\n                        feedbackSelect.hidden = true;\r\n                    });\r\n                });\r\n            });\r\n        });\r\n        <\/script>\r\n    \r\n    <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The correct answer is C. Sabeer Bhatia.<\/p>\n<p>Sabeer Bhatia is an Indian-American entrepreneur who co-founded Hotmail with Jack Smith in 1996. 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In 1997, Microsoft acquired Hotmail for $400 million.<\/p>\n<p>Shawn Fanning is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Napster in 1999. Napster was a peer-to-peer file sharing service that allowed users to share music files for free. Napster was shut down in 2001 after a legal battle with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).<\/p>\n<p>Ada Byron Lovelace was an English mathematician and writer who is considered to be one of the first computer programmers. She worked with Charles Babbage on his Analytical Engine, and she wrote a set of instructions for the Analytical Engine that could be used to calculate Bernoulli numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Ray Tomlinson is an American computer scientist who is credited with developing the first email program in 1971. 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