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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

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  1. 01What was the name of the early network that preceded the modern internet?
  2. 02The cheerful greeting You've Got Mail belonged to which internet service?
  3. 03In which year was Google's search engine launched?
  4. 04Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia anyone can edit, launched in which year?
  5. 05Which symbol appears in every email address?
  6. 06Napster, launched in 1999, let millions of people share what?
  7. 07ARPANET, the ancestor of the internet, was funded by a department of which government?
  8. 08The first ARPANET message in 1969 crashed after sending only which two letters?
  9. 09Which 1993 browser first made the web popular with the masses?
  10. 10Tim Berners-Lee was working at which research lab when he invented the web?
  11. 11Hotmail, one of the first webmail services, was bought in 1997 by which company?
  12. 12The dot-com bubble famously burst around which year?
  13. 13The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken what?
  14. 14In the 1990s browser wars, Internet Explorer's great rival was what?
  15. 15GeoCities was a 90s giant that hosted what?
  16. 16The world's first website can still be visited at an address belonging to which domain?
  17. 17Archie, created in 1990, is widely considered the first what?
  18. 18Which engineer picked the at sign for email addresses in the early 1970s?

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  1. Start a room. Pick Internet History and hit play. You get a 4 letter code.
  2. Friends join. They open the site, type the code, and pick a nickname. Nothing to install.
  3. Answer fast. Speed and streaks both score, so the fastest right answer wins the round.

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