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How well do you know the Internet?
How well do you know the Internet? —
The Pew Research Internet Project gave respondents a 13-question survey on how well they know the Web. Click through to see how well you do.
Battle For the Net
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OK, we'll start you off with the survey's easiest question. Who is this technology leader: Steve Jobs of Apple, Sergey Brin of Google, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook or Bill Gates of Microsoft?
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If you knew that was Bill Gates of Microsoft, you're with 83% of respondents. Next question: True or false? Twitter limits posts to 140 characters.
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We thought that was another "gimme," but only 60% knew that, yes, Twitter posts only go up to 140 characters. Next! The Apple iPhone was first released in what year: 2005, 2007, 2009 or 2011?
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Only 36% in the poll knew the first iPhone came out in 2007. Now, a possibly tougher ID. Who is this Internet leader: Marissa Mayer of Yahoo, Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook, Meg Whitman of Hewlett-Packard or Arianna Huffington of The Huffington Post?
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If you knew that was Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer, you were among only 21% who took the poll. Now ... math. Choose the bigger amount of information: a megabyte or a kilobyte.
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Seventy-four percent knew it's megabyte by a mile. That's about 1 million bytes, compared with a kilobyte, which is 1,024 bytes of memory. Now, what was the first university where students could use Facebook?
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Facebook rolled out at CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard, of course. (Though, only 42% of respondents knew that.) Next! "Net neutrality" refers to: nonpartisan postings on the Internet, a promise by users of a website that they will not be critical, equal treatment of digital content by internet service companies or the way Wikipedia editors are instructed to handle new entries.
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"Net neutrality" refers to providers having to deliver data to all equally; 61% knew that. Next question! True or false? The Internet and World Wide Web are the same thing.
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That was false. The Internet is the backbone the Web is built upon. Now, what does URL stand for: ultra reliable linkage, user responsibility liability, unique rate limit or uniform resource locator?
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If you knew that was uniform resource locator, you're with 69% of respondents. Next: True or false? Moore's Law relates to how many transistors can be put on a computer chip.
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That was true. But only 34% of respondents got it right. Next question is another true or false: When a company posts a privacy policy, it ensures that the company keeps confidential all the information it collects on users.
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False. Privacy policies can say any number of things about your information (44% knew that). Next ... The first widely popular graphical Web browser, released in 1993, was: Netscape Navigator, Mosaic, Internet Explorer or Opera.
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This was the toughest question on the survey. Only 9% knew that Mosaic, created in 1992, came first. Next question: "Hashtags" are widely used on which website?
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Another Twitter question. The second-easiest question behind Bill Gates, 82% got it right. True or false? A wiki is a form of online collaboration tool.
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That's true. Wikipedia, the crowdsourced online encyclopedia, is the most famous wiki. Last question! Another true or false: A PDF file can be sent using any email program.
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That's true! PDFs (an abbreviation for "portable document format") are designed to be shared. So, how did you do? Let us know in the comments.