Play Internet History Trivia Online
36 questions · 2 to 20 players · free
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Round up your friends and play a live Internet History trivia round right now. 36 questions in the bank, shuffled fresh every game. One person starts a room, everyone else joins with a 4 letter code from any phone or laptop. No signup, no app, no setup, and it is free for up to 20 players.
Sample questions
18 of 36- 01What was the name of the early network that preceded the modern internet?
- 02The cheerful greeting You've Got Mail belonged to which internet service?
- 03In which year was Google's search engine launched?
- 04Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia anyone can edit, launched in which year?
- 05Which symbol appears in every email address?
- 06Napster, launched in 1999, let millions of people share what?
- 07ARPANET, the ancestor of the internet, was funded by a department of which government?
- 08The first ARPANET message in 1969 crashed after sending only which two letters?
- 09Which 1993 browser first made the web popular with the masses?
- 10Tim Berners-Lee was working at which research lab when he invented the web?
- 11Hotmail, one of the first webmail services, was bought in 1997 by which company?
- 12The dot-com bubble famously burst around which year?
- 13The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken what?
- 14In the 1990s browser wars, Internet Explorer's great rival was what?
- 15GeoCities was a 90s giant that hosted what?
- 16The world's first website can still be visited at an address belonging to which domain?
- 17Archie, created in 1990, is widely considered the first what?
- 18Which engineer picked the at sign for email addresses in the early 1970s?
Answers show up in the game, not here.
How it works
- Start a room. Pick Internet History and hit play. You get a 4 letter code.
- Friends join. They open the site, type the code, and pick a nickname. Nothing to install.
- Answer fast. Speed and streaks both score, so the fastest right answer wins the round.
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