Incredible Tech Trivia: Fun Facts and Quizzes

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4 THE INTERNET Did you know online information has weight It's true Downloading a book from the Internet onto a reading device actually makes the device weigh more So just how heavy is information Not very heavy as it turns out All the information on the Internet weighs only about as much as one strawberry Ever wonder how the search engine Google got its name The number one followed by one hundred zeros is called a googol Google's inventors liked the sound of that Q What does http mean A It stands for hypertext transfer protocol That's the system used to transmit messages on the Internet In which decade was the Internet invented A The 1980s B The 1990s C The 1960s D The 2000s The answer is C although back then the Internet was used only by the US Department of Defense