STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Test your Internet knowledge with this gallery quiz
- The Pew Research Center surveyed 1,066 people on Web IQ
- 83% knew the easiest question, but only 9% got the hardest
(CNN) -- Sure, everyone reading this uses the Internet. But how much do you really know about it?
The Pew Research Center wanted to find out. This week, Pew released the results of a survey seeking to see just how much Internet users know about the Web and the people, tools and technology that make it work.
The results are
interesting in that they're all over the board. Pew notes that
"knowledge of the modern technology landscape varies widely across a
range of topics."
As many as 83% of the survey's 1,066 adult Internet users got one question right.
Only 9% guessed correctly on another.
"Technology permeates
modern life and we thought it would be revealing to see how
knowledgeable people were about some core concepts and history," said
Aaron Smith, author of the report. "Policy makers, tech designers, and
those orienting their organizations around digital life can profit from
knowing just how 'technology literate' people are and where gaps in
their knowledge might be. Just because people use these gadgets a lot
doesn't necessarily mean they know everything about how they work and
where they came from."
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