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Internet and tech trivia questions
Internet and tech mixes dated and undated questions: 15 of its 18 have a year, between 1989 and 2014, and 3 do not. The Pop culture group of the picker lists it as “Dial-up to smartphones”.
The Internet and tech timeline
The dates fall in 4 decades. Here is how many questions sit in each:
- 1980s: 1 question
- 1990s: 5 questions
- 2000s: 8 questions
- 2010s: 1 question
How Internet and tech questions are asked
The 18 questions are multiple choice. By their opening word: 9 start with “Which”, 3 start with “What”, 2 start with “How”. Facts that appear after you answer run as long as 19 words. In 10 cases the answer is just one word.
Every question was checked against a written source, and the source is kept with it.
Internet and tech questions, with answers
Try these two. They come from the older part of the Internet and tech bank and were not in the daily ten around the build date of this page.
Question (1995): The first thing ever sold on eBay, in 1995, was a broken what?
Answer: Laser pointer. The founder checked that the buyer knew it was broken. "I'm a collector of broken laser pointers."
The wrong choices on the card were Toaster, Wristwatch, and Bicycle.
Checked against EBay (Wikipedia).
Question (2001): Which free encyclopedia anyone can edit went online in January 2001?
Answer: Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger started it, and the volunteers took it from there.
The wrong choices on the card were Britannica Online, Everything2, and Answers.com.
Checked against Wikipedia (Wikipedia).
More Internet and tech questions to try
The answers to these are not printed here: they are part of the game.
- What was Facebook called when Mark Zuckerberg first put it online from Harvard?
Pick Internet and tech in Rewind
To play only Internet and tech, go to the title screen of Rewind and press the Branches button, which reads Mix until you change it. Choose Internet and tech from the Pop culture list (18 questions sit behind it) and confirm with Play these.
Scoring and the clock are in How to play Rewind.
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Every branch is on the Rewind topics page, and the other daily games are on the topics hub.