Grab Bag: A Quiz!
Are you a Web wizard? Take this quiz and find out.
Here are some questions from my "bet you didn’t
know" file—just for fun.
Click on the letter button when you think you have an answer.
1. There are now over 110 million Web sites!1 * How long
would it take you to visit every site if you clicked on a new
one every minute of the day?
- 2 years
- 20 years
- 120 years
- 200 years
Sorry, "a" is incorrect. Please try again.
Sorry, "b" is incorrect. Please try again.
Sorry, "c" is incorrect. Please try again.
d. CORRECT! 200 years *Because no one is really "in charge" of the World Wide Web, this is a best-guess answer, based on surveys.
1"March 2007 Web Server Survey," from Netcraft. http://news.netcraft.com (accessed March 27, 2007).
3. True or false: Elvis Presley wrote the song "Return to Sender" about an e-mail problem.
- True
- False
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b. False. Not possible! Elvis passed away in 1977.2 E-mailing began in the mid-1990s.
2 "Elvis Presley," from The History of Rock ‘n Roll. http://www.history-of-rock.com/elvis_presleyfour.htm (accessed April 1, 2007).
5. Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web around 1980.3 How much money has he made from this invention?
- $8 million
- $24 million
- $3.5 billion
- none of the above
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d. None of the above. Tim Berners-Lee does not profit directly from the Web. In fact, he’s not even a household name.
3Berners-Lee, Tim. Weaving the Web: The original design and ultimate destiny of the World Wide Web by its inventor. San Francisco: Harper Collins. © 1988, Tim Berners-Lee.
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