Early Internet Trivia
From AOL beeps to 'You've got mail!', prove you’re an OG internet aficionado who remembers when the net was a noisy playground.
EXAMPLE QUESTIONS
The 1992 coinage “surfing the Web” was inspired by which TV remote-control habit?
Channel surfing
When .com launched in 1985 as one of the first generic TLDs, it was meant for which type of entities?
Commercial entities
When Apple debuted Safari in 2003, it was originally exclusive to which operating system?
Mac OS X
On early GeoCities fan pages—think Xena or The X-Files—what feature tallied page views, where hitting tens of thousands was a brag-worthy milestone?
Visitor counters
Launched in 2003, which virtual world let users create avatars, build user-generated 3D spaces, and even buy and sell with a real-money economy?
Second Life