80 Wi-Fi And The Internet Trivia Questions with Answers
80 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Who created the first widely used Internet emoticon, :-) ?
Answer
Scott Fahlman
Who coined the word “cyberspace” in the 1980s?
Answer
William Gibson
Which Wi-Fi generation is marketed as Wi-Fi 5?
Answer
802.11ac
What does the Wi-Fi term SSID identify?
Answer
A wireless network name
Which company sent the first product sold on Amazon.com?
Answer
Amazon
Which person invented the World Wide Web at CERN?
Answer
Tim Berners-Lee
What was the original name of the organization now known as the Wi-Fi Alliance?
Answer
Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance
Which engineer invented the Domain Name System in 1983?
Answer
Paul Mockapetris
What is the maximum total size of an IPv4 packet, including its header?
Answer
65,535 bytes
Which Internet time-synchronization protocol normally uses UDP port 123?
Answer
Network Time Protocol
On what date was Wikipedia launched as a public website?
Answer
15 January 2001
Which organization created the Tor network’s original onion-routing technology?
Answer
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
What was the first video uploaded to YouTube called?
Answer
Me at the zoo
What is the standard private IPv4 address range beginning with 192.168?
Answer
192.168.0.0/16
Which company operates the Internet Archive, the nonprofit behind the Wayback Machine?
Answer
Internet Archive
Which company created the Firefox web browser?
Answer
Mozilla
Which Wi-Fi generation is defined by IEEE standard 802.11ax?
Answer
Wi-Fi 6
What does the web address abbreviation URL stand for?
Answer
Uniform Resource Locator
Which company launched Gmail on April 1, 2004?
Answer
What does the Wi-Fi feature called WPS stand for?
Answer
Wi-Fi Protected Setup