Internet Specialist

Around what fraction of Italians have never used internet?

1/3

Around what percentage of internet users are Asian?

50%

How much horsepower is needed to keep the internet running in its current state?

50 million

In what year was MP3 created?

1991

In what year was the first email sent?

1971

In what year was the first email sent, featuring a test message that was mostly random letters?

1971

In what year was the first tweet sent?

2006

The first emoticon is often credited to who?

Kevin Mackenzie

The first ever banner ad on the internet was from what company?

AT&T

The technology behind the internet started to take form in the 60s at what university?

MIT

What does HTML stand for?

Hyper Text Markup Language

What does P2P stand for?

Peer to Peer

What is the world's most popular retailer?

Amazon

What was the first ever registered domain?

Symbolics.com

Which of these is not a search engine?

Slam

Which website can be used to verify whether or not something is true?

Snopes.com

Who coined the term "surfing" as it pertains to browsing the web?

Jean Polly

The inventor of the "world wide web" hails from what country?

Great Britain

What does XML stand for?

Xtensible Markup Language

In what year was the first YouTube video uploaded?

2005

Which African nation has .za at the end of their internet domain names?

South Africa

Who is usually credited with being the inventor of the World Wide Web?

Tim Berners-Lee

Which internet company takes its name from a kind of being in "Gulliver's Travels"?

Yahoo

What is the most usual abbreviation for "laughing out loud" in cyber culture?

Lol

Which American politician received severe criticism for having said he "created the internet"?

Al Gore

Which of the following in an online language that was established in the 1980s in hacker circuits?

Leet

What is the name of the research organization behind the World Wide Web?

CERN

What year was the very first tweet published on Twitter?

2006

In which year did the first internet café open?

1994

What data net from 1969 is considered to be the forerunner of the internet?

Arpanet

A special kind of email fraud attempt is named after an African country. Which one?

Nigeria

Which company bought YouTube for 1.65 billion dollars in 2006?

Google

At which university did Mark Zuckerberg, in 2004, launch the web site Facebook?

Harvard

What is a blog?

An internet diary