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Websites' First-ever Posts — Daily trivia Friday, May 1, 2026: questions and answers
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Q 01What was the content of the very first tweet sent by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey?
- A"testing 1 2 3"
- B"hello world"
- C"just setting up my twttr"
- D"New social network launching soon"
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"just setting up my twttr"
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey sent the first-ever tweet on March 21, 2006, with the simple message "just setting up my twttr".
Q 02What was the title of the first video ever uploaded to YouTube?
- A"Me at the zoo"
- B"A Day at Stanford"
- C"San Francisco Sunset"
- D"Welcome to YouTube!"
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"Me at the zoo"
The first video uploaded to YouTube was titled "Me at the zoo" and was posted on April 23, 2005, by co-founder Jawed Karim.
Q 03What was the focus of Tim Berners-Lee's first website at CERN?
- AA directory of online shopping sites
- BInformation about the World Wide Web project
- CA platform for online gaming
- DA personal blog of scientific discoveries
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Information about the World Wide Web project
Information about the World Wide Web project. The pages at info.cern.ch explained the web itself, and CERN still hosts a restored copy of that first site.
Q 04What kind of item was the very first product ever sold on eBay, then known as AuctionWeb?
- AA collectible comic book
- BA vintage Pez dispenser
- CA broken laser pointer
- DA rare baseball card
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A broken laser pointer
The first item sold on eBay (originally AuctionWeb) in 1995 was a broken laser pointer. The buyer was a collector of broken laser pointers.
Q 05What was the subject of the first photo ever posted on Instagram by co-founder Kevin Systrom?
- AA pair of stylish shoes
- BA plate of sushi
- CThe Golden Gate Bridge
- DA golden retriever dog
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A golden retriever dog
Systrom's July 16, 2010 test shot showed a dog beside a taco stand in Mexico, with his girlfriend's foot in frame. Co-founder Mike Krieger's harbor photo from Pier 38 went up the same day.
Q 06Who was automatically every new Myspace user's first friend?
- ACo-founder Chris DeWolfe
- BCo-founder Tom Anderson
- COwner Rupert Murdoch
- DCEO Owen Van Natta
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Co-founder Tom Anderson
Co-founder Tom Anderson. As 'Tom from Myspace' he was every new user's default friend until 2010, when News Corp swapped in a profile called 'Today On MySpace'.
Q 07Flickr grew out of software built for which unreleased Ludicorp product?
- AA web-based online game
- BA calendar-sharing app
- CA music recommendation site
- DA photo-printing service
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A web-based online game
A web-based online game. Ludicorp built Flickr's photo-sharing tools for Game Neverending, a game it never launched, then shelved the game to focus on photos.
Q 08Which phrase is the earliest surviving edit to the world's largest online encyclopedia?
- A"Hello, World!"
- B"This is the new WikiPedia!"
- C"The Free Encyclopedia"
- D"Welcome to the wiki"
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"This is the new WikiPedia!"
"This is the new WikiPedia!" Jimmy Wales said his first test edit read "Hello, World!", but that edit was probably lost with an earlier version of the software.
Q 09Who wrote the very first book ever ordered on Amazon.com?
- AStephen Hawking
- BNeal Stephenson
- CDouglas Hofstadter
- DBill Gates
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Douglas Hofstadter
Douglas Hofstadter. The first book ordered on Amazon, in April 1995, was his dense cognitive-science title Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies.
Q 10Which company registered the world's very first .com domain name?
- AIBM
- BSymbolics
- CXerox
- DHewlett-Packard
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Symbolics
Symbolics, a Lisp-machine maker, claimed symbolics.com in 1985; the domain is still registered, making it the oldest .com in existence.
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