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  History of the Early Internet Years (1986-1993)   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Part 2 in this internet history series. The questions revolve around the first few years of the internet from 1986 to 1993, and looks at a several key moments and innovations in the history of the internet.
Average, 10 Qns, Billkozy, Feb 04 24
Average
Billkozy
Feb 04 24
123 plays
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  History of the Early Internet Years (1971-1989)   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
The questions revolve around the first few years of the internet from 1971 to 1989, and look at a several key moments and innovations in the history of the internet.
Average, 10 Qns, Billkozy, Jan 02 24
Average
Billkozy
Jan 02 24
185 plays
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  Internet for Infants or Grandmas!   top quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
My Grandma is learning all about the Internet for the first time. Thankfully my 3-year old niece is around to help her. Can you answer these questions for Grandma with the help of my niece Chloe?
Very Easy, 10 Qns, coachpauly, Jun 04 22
Recommended for grades: 5,6,7,8
Very Easy
coachpauly
Jun 04 22
3678 plays
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  Let Me Tell You About On-Line Relationships   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
You've gotten your first computer, you explore the Internet. You're having a ball, seeing new things and searching around. But then your life turns a little stale, you want a little companionship. You hit the chat rooms, you post on the single sites.
Easier, 10 Qns, Linkan, Mar 24 22
Easier
Linkan gold member
Mar 24 22
8955 plays
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  A Phishing Expedition   best quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Almost everybody on the Internet has received phishing emails -- attempts by scam artists to get our personal and financial information by pretending to represent banks, retailers, and other legitimate sites. Let's take a look at what's really going on.
Average, 10 Qns, CellarDoor, Jun 04 21
Average
CellarDoor gold member
Jun 04 21
1177 plays
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  You Do Something To Me   popular trivia quiz  
Match Quiz
 10 Qns
The internet is a scary place, but thankfully, there are ways to expand your social network without really needing to do much of anything. In fact, these are ten ways someone can do something to get you into the mix. Good luck!
Easier, 10 Qns, kyleisalive, Oct 08 17
Easier
kyleisalive editor
Oct 08 17
520 plays
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  Web Browsers - An Introduction   top quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
None of us would be on here without an internet browser. Here are some questions about some of them.
Average, 10 Qns, christopherm, Nov 05 15
Average
christopherm gold member
2823 plays
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  Stop Calling Me!    
Match Quiz
 10 Qns
Landlines are almost obsolete and cell phones seem to be used more for selfies and texting. Staying connected with friends & family has made a big shift to apps and social media platforms. See if you can match these services to the clues. Enjoy!
Easier, 10 Qns, seekernym, Oct 04 17
Easier
seekernym
Oct 04 17
570 plays
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  Well Known Port Numbers   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Knowledge of default port numbers used by the basic Internet services is important and handy even for home users. These "Well Known Port Numbers" (0-1023) are allocated by IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority). So, how well do you know them?
Tough, 10 Qns, gentlegiant17, Aug 22 18
Tough
gentlegiant17
Aug 22 18
1743 plays
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  Fix You   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
With the digital age in full swing, it's no surprise that "Time Magazine" named 'You' the '2006 Person of the Year'. See if you can fix these problems that the 'Digital You' may experience online while you find/make your online identity. Good luck!
Average, 10 Qns, kyleisalive, Jun 14 18
Average
kyleisalive editor
Jun 14 18
870 plays
trivia question Quick Question
Limewire, Frostwire, BitComet, and Vuze are all P2P programs you can download to share items with others. What does P2P stand for?

From Quiz "Are You Down With Downloads?"




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  Popular Websites    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Here's an average quiz on websites!
Average, 10 Qns, ladymacb29, Aug 24 15
Average
ladymacb29 editor
10017 plays
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  Are You Down With Downloads?    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
The internet has become an essential tool in the world today. Whether its playing games, buying gifts, or part of your job, the internet is used. There are also many popular downloads people use for pleasure and for work.
Easier, 10 Qns, jbooker8, May 08 13
Easier
jbooker8
886 plays
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  The Joy of HTML    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
HTML is a very powerful computer language that can create some amazing things on the World Wide Web. Here is a quiz on different HTML tags and related trivia. I hope you enjoy it!
Average, 10 Qns, lynn79os, Jun 25 14
Average
lynn79os
4163 plays
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  Help!    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
There are lots of places to get help on the internet. Here's a quiz about just 10 of them.
Average, 10 Qns, timence, Aug 05 13
Average
timence gold member
593 plays
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  Webscripts    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
All kinds of interactive web sites can be made with script languages. Do you know a bit about them, and can you tell them apart?
Average, 10 Qns, woordenboer, Feb 16 15
Average
woordenboer
1861 plays
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  Basic HTML Knowledge    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Test how well you know common tags, HTML lingo and HTML history. Anyone who has a basic knowledge of HTML should be able to score decently on this quiz.
Average, 10 Qns, GuruOfTrivia, Feb 16 14
Average
GuruOfTrivia
1163 plays
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  HTML Tags    
Multiple Choice
 5 Qns
Hope you enjoy the quiz. Note: I have not included the "<" and ">" signs in the tags as this makes the tags disappear.
Average, 5 Qns, dpen2000, Sep 16 02
Average
dpen2000
5944 plays
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  Chirping About Twitter    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Everyone's doing it! Tweeting on Twitter that is. How much do you know about this communication superhighway? Follow me and find out. Good luck!
Difficult, 10 Qns, SmogLover, Feb 21 11
Difficult
SmogLover
361 plays
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  XML, The Way Of The Future    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
XML is becoming the industry standard for distributed applications data transfer. How much do you think you know about it?
Difficult, 10 Qns, nakhob, Jan 22 23
Difficult
nakhob
Jan 22 23
1075 plays
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The Internet Trivia Questions

1. In 1986, Usenet newsgroups were an early format of discussion groups, and they were reorganized into "hierarchies" such as "comp", which were newsgroups related to computers. Which two were NOT among the major 7 Usenet groups?

From Quiz
History of the Early Internet Years (1986-1993)

Answer: "met" and "dr"

The concept of the worldwide discussion group idea was initiated in 1979, and established in 1980. The renaming/reorganizing of these usenet groups in the mid 80s was to try and make the system more orderly and efficient, but it was met with some heated debates between those who were in favor of the hierarchy structuring and those who weren't. "soc." were discussions of a social nature, and "talk." were discussion groups that revolved around topics that usually generated very engaged and opinionated issues such as talk.religion, talk.politics, etc. "rec." groups stood for recreation, and the groups involved arts and entertainment such as rec.games, rec.music, rec.arts.movies, etc. and "sci." groups were science-related, i.e sci.bio, sci.psychology, sci.astro, sci.research, etc. "news." groups did just that - discuss news. And "misc." was a catch-all covering miscellaneous topics like misc.travel, misc.education, misc.forsale, misc.kids, etc. In 1987, John Gilmore and Brian Reid created the alt. hierarchy the largest of all usenet groups, generally having many more specific topics. In 1995, the big 7 became the big 8, adding a "humanities." hierarchy focused on the fine arts: humanities.history, humanities.classics, humanities.visual-arts, etc.

2. On October 29, 1971, who is widely accepted to have sent the first email?

From Quiz History of the Early Internet Years (1971-1989)

Answer: Ray Tomlinson

Researcher Ray Tomlinson was an American computer programmer for BBN Technologies who, in 1971, was working on ARPANET, the precursor to the modern internet. He used a program called SNDMSG to send a message to himself on a different computer. Tomlinson has said that the message was "completely forgettable, probably 'QWERTYUIOP' or 'Testing 1-2-3."

3. Help! I want to find out what a particular new phrase I just heard means. What exactly can be found in this "Urban Dictionary" I have stumbled across?

From Quiz Help!

Answer: Word and slang meanings

The Urban Dictionary was founded in 1999. Initially it included only slang words and phrases that weren't found elsewhere, but it quickly embraced other word definitions to make it a composite of both standard and non-standard dictionaries. To keep it up to date, the online dictionary accepts (vetted) submissions from its users.

4. What popular social networking site did Mark Zuckerberg create in 2004?

From Quiz Are You Down With Downloads?

Answer: Facebook

Facebook has become a worldwide internet phenomenon that allows users to text, message, post, and share all sorts of things to friends and family. Facebook is a free site and users must be 13 years of age to open an account.

5. "Chloe, thanks for helping me." "No problem Grandma." "Chloe, what does WWW stand for?"

From Quiz Internet for Infants or Grandmas!

Answer: World Wide Web

The World Wide Web was the brain child of British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee and Belgian scientist Robert Cailliau. Proposed and released to the world in 1990, the World Wide Web has revolutionized information sharing and ushered in a remarkable technological age. WWW is a system where hypertext documents can be accessed through an internet web browser.

6. _____ Dorsey led the brainstorming that conceptualized what would later become Twitter.

From Quiz Chirping About Twitter

Answer: Jack

According to a member of his team, while sitting on a slide in South Park, San Francisco, Jack Dorsey came up with the idea of a short message service during a daylong brainstorming session. Jack and the team would eventually call this SMS Twttr. Dorsey grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. When he was fourteen he developed a keen interest in how information was disbursed to public transportation and emergency vehicles.

7. If the Digital You is influenced by your Twitter account, then so be it. You seem to be having a problem posting (or 'tweeting') a message about your life that is 300 characters in length. How do you fix this?

From Quiz Fix You

Answer: Shorten your Tweet to 280 characters in length

The catch when using this rapid-fire social networking site is that all 'Tweets' must be (at the maximum) 280 characters in length, so to fix this, you'll need to be a bit more concise. This ensures that your Tweets are both straight-to-the-point and quick to make them that way. All posts, all replies, and all reposts must follow this guideline in order to be posted. To take a fairly long link and place it into your Tweet, there are a number of handy solutions out there including URL shorteners to make any lengthy link a short forwarding URL. Many celebrities have also taken to the Twitterverse, and users can follow friends, famous faces, and family as well as update on the fly with mobile devices if they aren't near a computer. Twitter is perhaps one of the fastest and foremost methods of what's deemed social grooming. Because of the vast number of Twitter users and the speed at which items can be posted, it's no surprise that a large percentage of Tweets are pointless babble (according to research done by Pear Analytics in 2009).

8. What is considered to be the very first WWW browser or client?

From Quiz Web Browsers - An Introduction

Answer: WorldWideWeb

Tim Berners-Lee holds the distinction of creating and developing the World Wide Web. He also created the first WWW client, called WorldWideWeb. It was developed for the NeXT operating system, which was based on a Motorola chip. It provided a strong foundation for the development of future web browsers.

9. The most basic one of them all. You open your web browser and enter "http://www.funtrivia.com" at its address bar. With which port on the FunTrivia web server are you establishing connection?

From Quiz Well Known Port Numbers

Answer: 80

A port is a virtual data connection used by software components to interact. As long as they are inter-connected through a network (such as the Internet), the components in question may reside on different machines which run on different operating systems. The concept of client-server is an essential part of this networking model (commonly known as TCP/IP). A particular server or service (such as HTTP) opens a Well Known port for incoming traffic from clients that wish to interact with it (TCP port 80). "Surfing to FunTrivia" means that the web client (your browser) is establishing connection with the FunTrivia web server on this port. When approaching http://www.funtrivia.com, your client sends the request to the default well known HTTP port. If a web server is listening on a non-default port (i.e. not Well Known), you have to explicitly specify it - e.g. http://www.someurl.com:8182 (for port 8182). This holds true for other protocols (or servers) which use a non-default port.

10. What does HTML stand for?

From Quiz The Joy of HTML

Answer: Hyper Text Markup Language

HTML was written by Tim Berners-Lee in 1992. Berners-Lee also invented the Web.

11. What does XML stand for?

From Quiz XML, The Way Of The Future

Answer: eXtensible Markup Language

XML is very useful for sending and receiving data across the Internet. It is a standard for data structure that is platform independent.

12. What tag do you commonly use to link between pages?

From Quiz HTML Tags

Answer: "A"

"A" stands for anchor. It can also be used to name a vertical position on a page and link to it from another part of the page e.g. with a "back to top" link.

13. Perhaps the first major internet virus hoax was in 1988 and was called what?

From Quiz History of the Early Internet Years (1986-1993)

Answer: 2400-baud modem Virus

The FireWall Virus and The Da Vinci Virus were both fictitious viruses from works of fiction, in this case from the anime and manga series "Ghost in the Shell," and the movie "Johnny Mnemonic" respectively. It was the 2400-baud modem virus hoax in 1988 that spread throughout the minds of worrywarts on the internet, and never infected a single computer, despite the fear that it was supposed to delete your data and corrupt your hard drive. Not everyone was fooled. Computer scientist Robert Tappan Morris Sr., joked with this warning, "Don't read messages. Not even this one." Mr. Morris however, did indeed spread a real virus in 1988 called the Internet Worm which infect 10% of the 60,000 computer hosts on the internet at the time.

14. Starting in 1973 and continuing for 26 years, Lena, also called Lenna, was a digital image file used in testing image compression techniques. What was Lena/Lenna an image of?

From Quiz History of the Early Internet Years (1971-1989)

Answer: Playboy playmate

Lena Sjööblom, born March 31, 1951, was Playboy's November 1972 Playmate of the month, and one particular photo of her from that photo spread was cropped to reveal just her head and shoulders, and that image became ubiquitously used by tech workers experimenting on ways to digitally compression image files. The process became essential for finding an efficient way to send graphics over the Internet. The Swedish model encouraged a respelling of her name from Lena to Lenna so that it would be pronounced correctly with the short "e" which she preferred over the long "e" sound in her name.

15. Help! I want to know if a particular urban legend is true, false or unverifiable. Which website, founded in 1995, could I visit to help give me the answer?

From Quiz Help!

Answer: snopes.com

Snopes.com started small and grew with the volume of internet urban legends. Since its beginnings, it has added other content including details about scams and other e-mails to look out for, making it a valuable site if you receive a suspicious e-mail. Snopes was named after characters (of questionable nature) in a novel by William Faulkner.

16. Limewire, Frostwire, BitComet, and Vuze are all P2P programs you can download to share items with others. What does P2P stand for?

From Quiz Are You Down With Downloads?

Answer: Peer to Peer

P2P file sharing has become a popular way to share music, videos, and movies over the internet. Although copyright issues and piracy have hindered legitimate sharing, there are sites out there who have filters to prevent this.

17. "Thanks Chloe." "No problem Grandma." "Hmm, Chloe, the book says I have to connect to a LAN. What's an LAN?"

From Quiz Internet for Infants or Grandmas!

Answer: Local Area Network

A Local Area Network (LAN) is a computer network set up to connect computer terminals in a limited geographical area. These proximal networks have the advantage of higher data-transfer rates and the lack of a need for leased telecommunication lines. Early Local Area Networks were provided by coaxial cable. Recently, cable has been replaced by WiFi capabilities that do not require cables to access the Internet.

18. Dorsey and what Odeo co-founder took about two weeks to create the Twttr prototype?

From Quiz Chirping About Twitter

Answer: Biz Stone

Stone and Dorsey's creation went through a series of code names to fit the SMS product codes of five characters. Some of the names they came up with were 10958, 40404, and the Flickr-inspired Twttr. Available to only a few insiders and family at first, Twttr was tested on March 21, 2006.

19. What tag is used when you want to insert a picture?

From Quiz The Joy of HTML

Answer: IMG

The IMG tag is one of the few HTML tags that stands alone, as it requires no closing tag with it.

20. I've been chatting with Rob for the past three months, he seems like a really nice guy. What information would it be okay to give to Rob?

From Quiz Let Me Tell You About On-Line Relationships

Answer: Marital Status

If you insist on giving Rob anything, only give him your marital status. Never under any circumstances, give out your social security number. Many companies ask to verify your information now with DOB and/or your mother's maiden name. So please avoid giving this information out.

21. What is an XML string embedded in an HTML document called?

From Quiz XML, The Way Of The Future

Answer: Data island

Data Islands are a good way of making small amount of data available to the client browser. They can be bound to other HTML elements such as TABLE.

22. What is the function of the "map" tag?

From Quiz HTML Tags

Answer: Used to create a client-side image map

There are also server-side image maps.

23. When it premiered, what was the official site of the 1997 movie 'Titanic'?

From Quiz Popular Websites

Answer: www.titanicmovie.com

At the time the movie was in theatres, there was a front page at www.titanic.com that pointed to the movie site because he had had so many emails saying 'Where's the movie?'

24. In 1988 Jarrko Oikarinen invents real-time communication over the Net. This system still exists today and is known as IRC which stands for what?

From Quiz History of the Early Internet Years (1986-1993)

Answer: Internet Relay Chat

The Internet Relay Chat system utilized specific "channels", each one designated with a # prefix, and each one assigned a specific topic. This instant messaging service provided group discussions as well as private messaging and even file sharing. IRC usage has declined since 2003, losing 60% of its users between then and 2012. Other social media platforms cut into IRC's popularity.

25. Who coined the term "Internet" in 1974, and became known as "Father of the Internet"?

From Quiz History of the Early Internet Years (1971-1989)

Answer: Vint Cerf

Vint Cerf used the term "Internet" in a research paper in which he outlined the use of Transmission Control Protocol, the common computer language that all computers on the Net would eventually come to utilize. Robert Kahn was a key co-worker of Mr. Cerf in their work on enabling inter-computer communication and is also credited with being a "Father of the Internet". Those other famous Cerfs all passed away before the Internet was born.

26. There are also a lot of music sites offering downloads for music lovers. Which of the four choices is a real music site?

From Quiz Are You Down With Downloads?

Answer: Pandora

Pandora was created by Will Glaser, Jon Kraft, and Tim Westergren. Savage Beast Technologies launched Pandora Online Radio July 21, 2005.

27. "Chloe, you really are a big help." "No problem Grandma." "Chloe, the instructions manual says that I need a router. What is a router?"

From Quiz Internet for Infants or Grandmas!

Answer: A device that joins multiple wired or wireless networks together

For surfing the internet, a router is a device that allows packets of information to be transfered to different points. The router generally is connected to at least two networks and is often included as part of a network switch. Businesses and home computers, using high-speed Internet connections, might use a router as a hardware firewall. A router often provides better protection against hacking compared to a software firewall. This is because no IP (Internet Protocol) address is directly exposed to the Internet.

28. What does the A tag stand for?

From Quiz The Joy of HTML

Answer: ANCHOR

This is the tag that really makes the Internet what it is. The A tag tells the computer to link to another file, such as another website. It creates a web of interlinked documents! Such a little tag, but incredibly powerful!

29. In 2000, the 'grandchild' of C was released, a language designed for Microsoft's .NET framework. Its name is...

From Quiz Webscripts

Answer: C# (see sharp)

C# is meant to be portable across all kinds of systems, including embedded systems, and developing C# code should be easier and safer than developing C++ code. In many respects, C# resembles Java more than C or C++.

30. Dave Rhodes, was the name associated with the person who sent the famous and one of the first what on the internet?

From Quiz History of the Early Internet Years (1986-1993)

Answer: Chain letter

Dave Rhodes was the false name signed to the infamous "Turn $5 into $50,000" email chain letter. Rhodes was rumored to be a student at Columbia Union College, in Maryland, who used the college's internet account to send his scam email in 1988. Also known as the "Make Money Fast!" email scam letter, it is estimated that "Rhodes" made $400,000 perpetrating his ruse.

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