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SoonerP226

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Are you a cranky old Internet geezer like me? Find out here:
http://www.pewinternet.org/quiz/web-iq-quiz/
The only one I missed was the iPhone intro year. I will admit that I got the picture of the chick by process of elimination, but I knew the rest of the answers--though the FB- and Twitter-related ones I only know as trivia, never having used (nor particularly giving a rodent's behind about) either.

Heck, I used that first popular graphical Web browser...

Now, GTFO my lawn, ya useless danged ol' n00bz!
 

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Are you a cranky old Internet geezer like me? Find out here:
http://www.pewinternet.org/quiz/web-iq-quiz/
The only one I missed was the iPhone intro year. I will admit that I got the picture of the chick by process of elimination, but I knew the rest of the answers--though the FB- and Twitter-related ones I only know as trivia, never having used (nor particularly giving a rodent's behind about) either.

Heck, I used that first popular graphical Web browser...

Now, GTFO my lawn, ya useless danged ol' n00bz!

I got 10 of 12, which tells me it was too easy. Im no computer nerd like my f**kstick brother :D
 

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Honestly, that "test" is not really a test at all. It is basically a survey to see how many people know what net neutrality actually is. Just to explain it a little better for people who may not understand:

Net neutrality is a term used by people who want all data to be treated the same no matter who views or displays the information. Certain law makers( all of Oklahoma's senators and Representitives) do not support this. They believe the internet infrastructure is a business commodity. They forget it was built on tax dollars. They want to give businesses "fast lanes" aka load their pages faster while restricting speeds on competitors. So, it Conglomerate corp. A has a site dedicated to their business of Gun forums, they can pay a premium to stifle the competition by restricting the allowed bandwidth of Joe's gun forum making it unusable no matter how much bandwidth they by from their service provider. Say Joe's gun forum has a circuit from their service provider that gives them 100Mbps to host their forum. They only use at max 40Mbps today so they are no where near any bandwidth cap. The service provider people use in their homes are usually called "last mile providers". They provide the connection from your home to middlemen providers call Content delivery networks( Level3, akami, amazon, HP, and rackspace are some well known CDNs). They provide the data transport from Joe's internet service provider to the internet provider used in your home( Usually comcast, ATT, Verizon, TW, Cox). You pay them to use 50Mbps throughput at your home. However, since Conglomerate corp. gun forum has paid your internet service provider at your home for priority access, they limit your available throughput on their network to Joe's gun forum to 1Mbps. Which is then shared by 2000 people who pay for 50Mbps thoughput speed each. Your actual throughput to Joe's gun forum will be be 1% of what you or Joe's gun forum pays for bandwidth simply because Conglomerate corp. gun forum has bought a "fast lane"

TLDR Joe's gun forum has a 100Mbps internet connection he pays for. You have a 50Mbps internet connection you pay for. Conglomerate corp. pays your internet connection to restrict the bandwidth you and Joe pay for so their page loads extremely fast and Joe's gun forum loads so slow it is unusable.


Disclaimer, Their is a tad bit bias in my post as I am all for net neutrality.
 

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I had to guess at just about all of them only got 4 correct.
Most of those questions I could care less.

But I do not like to watch or read the news either. I like my rock
 

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Wow! I must be a true internet geezer or a really good guesser, 11 out of 12, missed first Facebook university. Was torn between Stanford and Harvard and picked the wrong one.
 

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