Did You Know?
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What is an online bookmark?
Permanent links to your favorite web pages.
100
What's the Hawaiin word for "fast"?
Wiki.
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What is the URL's suffix?
It's the letters at the end of a domain name in a Web address.
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What year was Snopes.com created?
1995.
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Which was the first major newspaper to go completely online?
Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
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What year has the idea of shared online bookmarks been around?
Since 1996.
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What is wiki?
It's a collaborative website that allowsanyone to add or change its content.
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What's the most common suffix?
.com
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What website is the most well-known and respected?
Snopes.com
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When did the Seattle Post-Intelligencer come out?
March 19, 2009.
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What does social bookmarking let you do?
It lets you access your bookmarks from any computer.
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Who pioneered the concept of wikis in the early 1990's?
Ward Cunningham.
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What does .com stand for?
Commercial site.
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What is Snopes.com's main goal?
Demystifying urban legends.
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What are many people doing?
Using the internet for the news.
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What year was the concept of tagging introduced?
2003.
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What's the most popular wikis?
Wikipedia.com
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What is .gov runned by?
United States government.
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Where is Urban Legends Reference Pages located at?
Snopes.com
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What are fewer people doing?
Buying newspapers.
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What else do tags help you do?
It helps you organize your bookmarks into orderly groupings.
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Is wiki accurate or not?
No.
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What's the newer suffix?
.tv
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What does Snopes contains?
Research and real evidence from reliable sources.
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What happened to the Seattle's oldest daily newspaper?
It stopped publishing its print edition.
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