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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

In the dial-up era, AOL rebranded from Quantum Computer Services in 1991what did the initials stand for?

America Online

What was the name of AOL’s popular late-’90s instant messaging platform?

AIM

In GeoCities’ themed “neighborhoods” like Hollywood and Area 51, what kind of websites flourished in the 1990s?

Fan sites

In 1971, Ray Tomlinson’s first ARPANET email introduced which keyboard symbol to separate the user name from the host computer?

@

From his suburban rental in Bellevue, Washington, out of what did Jeff Bezos launch Amazon in 1995?

His garage