Millennial Nostalgia Quiz: Only Real 90s and 2000s Kids Get 35/40

Millennial Nostalgia Quiz: Only Real 90s and 2000s Kids Get 35/40: questions and answers

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1. Which came first: the Walkman or the CD player? Walkman · CD player · Same year

   Walkman – The Walkman launched in 1979, the first CD player in 1982!

2. Which device played your music on the go in the 90s? Tablet · Walkman · Smartwatch

   Walkman

3. Which of these is a cassette tape? Vinyl record · CD · Cassette

   Cassette

4. How did 90s game consoles load their games? Wi-Fi · Cartridges · Streaming

   Cartridges – You blew into them to fix a bad connection, or at least tried!

5. Which keys did you press when a PC froze? Shift+Tab+Esc · Alt+F4+Home · Ctrl+Alt+Del

   Ctrl+Alt+Del

6. Which of these is a floppy disk? USB stick · Floppy disk · SD card

   Floppy disk

7. On an old phone keypad, how many presses of '2' type a 'C'? 2 · 4 · 3

   3

8. What did you buy, load and develop to see your holiday photos? Glue · Film · Batteries

   Film

9. What does 'snail mail' mean? Slow email · Mail by snail · Paper letters

   Paper letters

10. Which of these is a payphone? Intercom · Payphone · Mailbox

    Payphone

11. What was a 'pager' used for? Taking photos · Playing games · Beep alerts

    Beep alerts

12. What big box sat in most living rooms before flat screens? Aquarium · Wardrobe · CRT TV

    CRT TV

13. In texts, what does 'brb' mean? Big round ball · Be right back · Bring red bananas

    Be right back

14. What does 'www' stand for? Wide World Window · Web World Wire · World Wide Web

    World Wide Web

15. The Y2K bug happened because computers stored years as... Words · Two digits · Roman numerals

    Two digits

16. How much music fit on a standard CD? One single song · Ten hours · 80 minutes

    80 minutes

17. What did it mean to 'burn' a CD? Polished it · Copied data · Set it on fire

    Copied data

18. Which came first: email or text message? Text message · Same year · Email

    Email – The first email was sent in 1971, the first text in 1992!

19. What did you need to free up to use dial-up internet? The microwave · Phone line · The TV

    Phone line

20. Which was invented first: the floppy disk or the CD? CD · USB stick · Floppy disk

    Floppy disk – The floppy disk dates back to the early 1970s!

21. Which of these is a flip phone? Smartphone · Flip phone · Calculator

    Flip phone

22. What was a 'mixtape'? Type of cereal · A video game · Cassette mix

    Cassette mix

23. How many characters fit in one classic text message? 500 · 160 · 100

    160

24. Which 90s craze had kids feeding a pixel pet on a keychain? Rollerblades · Slap bracelets · Tamagotchi

    Tamagotchi

25. In 1999, Napster let people share... Postcards · MP3s · Recipes

    MP3s

26. In which year was the first text message sent? 1982 · 2002 · 1992

    1992 – It simply said 'Merry Christmas'!

27. Which game came on almost every old brick phone? Snake · Pong · Doom

    Snake

28. What did 'T9' on old phones help you do? Type words · Take photos · Play music

    Type words

29. About how much data fit on a floppy disk? 144 GB · 1.44 MB · 1.44 GB

    1.44 MB – That's less than one photo from a modern phone!

30. In which year did YouTube launch? 2005 · 2001 · 2009

    2005 – The first video, 'Me at the zoo', is only 19 seconds long!

31. What did MP3 players replace? Walkmans · Pagers · Typewriters

    Walkmans

32. Which format won the 2008 high-definition disc war? MiniDisc · Blu-ray · HD DVD

    Blu-ray

33. Which came first: Google or Wikipedia? Google · Wikipedia · Same year

    Google – Google began in 1998, Wikipedia in 2001!

34. Which came first: the DVD or the iPod? DVD · iPod · Same year

    DVD – DVDs launched in the 90s, the iPod in 2001!

35. Which company made the first iPod in 2001? Nokia · Apple · Sony

    Apple

36. What was the very first website about? The web · Shopping · Cooking

    The web

37. In which year did the '@' sign first appear in an email address? 1971 · 1981 · 1991

    1971

38. What was the first widely used graphical web browser? Safari · Mosaic · Chrome

    Mosaic

39. A 56k modem needed about how long to download one 4 MB song? 10 minutes · 10 seconds · 1 minute

    10 minutes

40. In which year did the first USB flash drive go on sale? 2000 · 1990 · 2010

    2000

41. In 1997, a computer called Deep Blue beat the world champion at... Chess · Checkers · Go

    Chess