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15 The History of the Internet Trivia Questions and Answers

How many of these history of the internet trivia questions do you know the answer to? Test your friend and family, too.

15 The History of the Internet Trivia Questions

  1. Q: What was the precursor to the internet called?
  2. Q: In what year was ARPANET established?
  3. Q: Who is credited with inventing the World Wide Web?
  4. Q: What does “HTTP” stand for?
  5. Q: What year was the first email sent?
  6. Q: What was the first widely used web browser?
  7. Q: When was the first domain name registered?
  8. Q: What does “IP” in IP address stand for?
  9. Q: Which company launched the first search engine, “Archie”?
  10. Q: What year was Wi-Fi technology introduced?
  11. Q: What was the first social media platform?
  12. Q: Which company introduced the concept of “cloud computing”?
  13. Q: What was the first video uploaded to YouTube?
  14. Q: When did Google become a company?
  15. Q: What does “URL” stand for?

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15 The History of the Internet Trivia Questions and Answers

  1. Q: What was the precursor to the internet called? A: ARPANET.
  2. Q: In what year was ARPANET established? A: 1969.
  3. Q: Who is credited with inventing the World Wide Web? A: Tim Berners-Lee.
  4. Q: What does “HTTP” stand for? A: HyperText Transfer Protocol.
  5. Q: What year was the first email sent? A: 1971.
  6. Q: What was the first widely used web browser? A: Mosaic.
  7. Q: When was the first domain name registered? A: 1985.
  8. Q: What does “IP” in IP address stand for? A: Internet Protocol.
  9. Q: Which company launched the first search engine, “Archie”? A: McGill University.
  10. Q: What year was Wi-Fi technology introduced? A: 1997.
  11. Q: What was the first social media platform? A: Six Degrees, launched in 1997.
  12. Q: Which company introduced the concept of “cloud computing”? A: Amazon, with AWS in 2006.
  13. Q: What was the first video uploaded to YouTube? A: “Me at the zoo.”
  14. Q: When did Google become a company? A: 1998.
  15. Q: What does “URL” stand for? A: Uniform Resource Locator.
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