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Which internet standards body held its first meeting in San Diego in January 1986?

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Which early CERN hypertext project did Tim Berners-Lee create in 1980?

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Which 1981 academic network first linked the City University of New York and Yale?

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Which early ARPANET protocol lets a user log in to a remote computer over a network?

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Which institute received the first ARPANET message sent from UCLA in 1969?

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The History Of The Internet

Which internet standards body held its first meeting in San Diego in January 1986?

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IETF

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The History Of The Internet

Which early CERN hypertext project did Tim Berners-Lee create in 1980?

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ENQUIRE

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Which 1981 academic network first linked the City University of New York and Yale?

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BITNET

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The History Of The Internet

Which early ARPANET protocol lets a user log in to a remote computer over a network?

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Telnet

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Which institute received the first ARPANET message sent from UCLA in 1969?

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Stanford Research Institute

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Which packet radio network at the University of Hawaii began operating in 1971?

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ALOHAnet

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The History Of The Internet

Which engineer managed IANA for many years and edited numerous early RFCs?

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Jon Postel

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Which experimental satellite network linked early Internet research sites in the 1970s?

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SATNET

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Which RFC first specified the Transmission Control Program in 1974?

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RFC 675

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Which company introduced the Safari web browser in 2003?

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Apple

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Which protocol was designed by Phil Zimmermann for email encryption in 1991?

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PGP

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Which web browser did the Mozilla Foundation release in 2004?

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Firefox