Question 1

True or false: The Internet and the World Wide Web are the exact same thing.

Accepted Answer

False. The Internet is the global network of computers; the Web is a service on it (like email or streaming).

Question 2

True or false: Using incognito mode hides your internet activity from your internet service provider.

Accepted Answer

False. Incognito only hides browsing from local device history; your ISP can still see all your traffic.

Question 3

True or false: The first website ever created is still online and accessible today.

Accepted Answer

True. The first page (info.cern.ch) went live in 1991; it's preserved and viewable at CERN’s website.

Question 4

True or false: The Internet was originally designed to withstand a nuclear attack.

Accepted Answer

False. While ARPANET had decentralized routing, the nuclear attack story is a popular myth; its real goal was reliable research communication.

Question 5

True or false: Over half of all internet traffic today is generated by bots, not humans.

Accepted Answer

True. Bots (like search crawlers, scrapers, and malicious scripts) account for roughly 50-60% of web traffic.

Question 6

True or false: The first email was sent by Alan Turing in the 1940s.

Accepted Answer

False. The first email was sent in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson; Turing died in 1954, decades before email existed.

Question 7

True or false: The '404 Not Found' error code was named after hotel room 404 at CERN.

Accepted Answer

True. CERN’s room 404 housed the Web’s first server; when files weren’t found, the error took its number.

Question 8

True or false: The first webcam was invented to monitor a coffee pot at Cambridge University.

Accepted Answer

True. In 1991, researchers set up a camera to check the coffee level remotely, leading to the first webcam stream.

Internet Trivia Questions