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Take this quiz to see how much you know (and don’t know) about technology.

1

The Internet was born on Labor Day of what year?
A)1969
B)1976
C)1982
D)1994
2

The first email message was sent by
A)Bill Gates of Microsoft
B)Anthony LaQuina of NASA
C)J.R. Licklider of the Defense Department
D)Al Gore
3

How many U.S. households have telephones?
A)88%
B)94%
C)98%
D)100%
4

In the U.S., 7.3 million emails are sent in one
A)month
B)week
C)day
D)hour
5

The World Wide Web was released to the public in
A)1969
B)1982
C)1992
D)1995
6

How many pages make up the World Wide Web?
A)500,000
B)1 million
C)100 million
D)800 million
7

How many U.S. households had a computer in 2000?
A)50%
B)61%
C)75%
D)88%
8

How many U.S. households had Internet access in 2000?
A)41.5%
B)50%
C)61%
D)75%
9

How many U.S. households have a television?
A)61%
B)75%
C)94%
D)98%
10

The product with the most online sales in 2000 was
A)Books
B)Clothes
C)Cars
D)Computers
11

1994 was the first year online customers could order
A)Books from Amazon.com
B)Pizza from Pizza Hut
C)Clothes from the Gap
D)Computers from Dell
12

The U.S. Department of Education technology budget in 2001 was
A)$995,000
B)$ 1.7 million
C)$1.1 billion
D)$2.7 billion





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