Alex Trebek became the host of Jeopardy the same year Mark Zuckerberg was born. What is 1984?
Thanks to the Internet and some n-gram-style analytics, we have a better picture of how technology has increasingly become a subject on the daytime game show — and how Mark Zuckerberg has become a popular question topic. More than 256,000 clues asked during Trebek’s reign as host of the quiz show, which turns 50 this week, are stored online by devoted fans on the J-archive.
A new website, called J-grams, takes the clues from the J-archive and searches them by keyword to show the popularity of certain terms over time. I took a look at how technology has slowly become a more important part of the show (as seen below).
Because of the show — and Trebek’s — longevity, the show has seen all kinds of technology come and go in popularity.
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