This is such an excellent observation, something that novices should take to heart: it's OK to ask questions so if you don't know something, and we live in a time where asking questions (and getting answers) is easier than it has ever been before. Great people ask basic questions at some point, and yet, they still achieve greatness.

Or to riff off of the classic New Yorker cartoon: On the Internet, nobody knows that you may be the next great inventor.

Caveat: Thanks to Google's ubiquity, it's not wrong to use a pseudonym if you're really worried about your basic questions coming back to haunt you :)