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[Solved] What was the first-ever recorded hashtag?

Trivia: What was the first-ever recorded hashtag?

#test
#barcamp
#helloworld
#dogpark

The correct answer is #barcamp

So why is this answer correct? : Twitter user Chris Messina (not the Hollywood actor) first proposed using the hash symbol (aka pound sign or number sign) to make topics more searchable, with the first-ever instance referring to BarCamp, a series of tech workshops he helped create. Though Twitter founder Biz Stone was dismissive of the idea at first, the hashtag concept caught on among users during the 2007 San Diego wildfires, and subsequently grew in popularity.

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[Solved] Which country’s capital city was renamed Nur-Sultan in 2019?

Trivia: Which country’s capital city was renamed Nur-Sultan in 2019?

Brunei
Oman
India
Kazakhstan

The correct answer is Kazakhstan

So why is this answer correct? : Astana became the capital of the Central Asian country of Kazakhstan in 1997. But if you’re looking for Astana on a map today, you won’t find it. The city was renamed Nur-Sultan in 2019, after the country’s first democratically elected president, Nursultan Nazarbayev. After his resignation in 2019, the country’s succeeding president, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, announced that the country’s capital would be renamed in his honor following a unanimous vote in Kazakhstan’s parliament.

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[Solved] What is the name of Reddit’s longtime mascot?

Trivia: What is the name of Reddit’s longtime mascot?

Snoo
Glup
Dack
Wagg

The correct answer is Snoo

So why is this answer correct? : Reddit’s alien mascot Snoo was sketched by cofounder Alexis Ohanian while he was bored in class during his senior year at the University of Virginia. Snoo was introduced upon Reddit’s launch in 2005, with the character’s name representing the simple question: “What’s new?” Throughout Reddit’s expansion, Snoo has been redesigned across thousands of subreddits to reflect each community’s particular interests.

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[Solved] What social network requires users to submit their real addresses?

Trivia: What social network requires users to submit their real addresses?

Pinterest
Nextdoor
Houseparty
Flickr

The correct answer is Nextdoor

So why is this answer correct? : While anonymity may be easy to achieve on other social media platforms, Nextdoor has always required users to submit their real names and addresses for location verification. Nextdoor allows for hyperlocal interactions between members of the same neighborhood, with discussion topics ranging from local elections to dog poop, plus other neighborhood news.

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[Solved] Musical.ly merged with what other app in 2018?

Trivia: Musical.ly merged with what other app in 2018?

WhatsApp
Badoo
Discord
TikTok

The correct answer is TikTok

So why is this answer correct? : Long before TikTok existed, the lip-syncing app Musical.ly was launched in 2014, and had achieved a $1 billion value by 2017. Musical.ly was purchased by the Chinese company ByteDance — the owners of TikTok — who chose to merge the two in August 2018. TikTok grew to ultimately surpass Google and Facebook as the world’s most popular web domain in 2021.