Internet History

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1. The first ARPANET host-to-host message was sent in 1969 from UCLA to which research institute, commonly abbreviated SRI?

   • MIT
   • CERN
   • SRI
   • Bell Labs

2. At CERN, who proposed a linked information system that became the World Wide Web?

   • Tim Berners-Lee
   • Vint Cerf
   • Ray Tomlinson
   • Paul Baran

3. ARPANET’s transition to TCP/IP on 1 January of which year is often called the Internet’s “flag day”?

   • 1973
   • 1978
   • 1991
   • 1983

4. Who designed the Domain Name System and authored its foundational 1983 specifications?

   • Jon Postel
   • Paul Mockapetris
   • Robert Metcalfe
   • Marc Andreessen

5. Which 1993 browser helped popularize the Web by combining inline images with an accessible graphical interface?

   • Lynx
   • Gopher
   • NCSA Mosaic
   • Archie

6. What was ARPANET originally built to research and demonstrate?

   • Packet-switched networking
   • Commercial web advertising
   • Satellite television
   • Mobile app distribution

7. Which pair published the influential 1974 paper describing a protocol for interconnecting packet networks?

   • Berners-Lee and Cailliau
   • Jobs and Wozniak
   • Brin and Page
   • Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn

8. What was the first registered domain under the .com top-level domain?

   • ibm.com
   • symbolics.com
   • apple.com
   • xerox.com

9. In 1991, Tim Berners-Lee opened which service to users outside CERN, marking the Web’s public emergence?

   • The first Web server and software
   • The first social network
   • The first search advertisement
   • The first Wi-Fi hotspot

10. Whose 1945 essay “As We May Think” imagined a linked personal information device called the Memex?

    • Norbert Wiener
    • J. C. R. Licklider
    • Vannevar Bush
    • Douglas Engelbart