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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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Which online community was founded by Stewart Brand and Larry Brilliant in 1985?

Answer

The WELL

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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Which bulletin board system launched in Chicago in 1978?

Answer

CBBS

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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Which search tool for FTP archives is often called the first Internet search engine?

Answer

Archie

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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Who coined the term packet switching while working at the UK National Physical Laboratory?

Answer

Donald Davies

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
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Which programming language did Brendan Eich create at Netscape in 1995?

Answer

JavaScript

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Which markup language is used to structure web pages?

Answer

HTML

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
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Which browser did Google first release in 2008?

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Google Chrome

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Which company launched the Google search engine in 1998?

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Google

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
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Which university created the Gopher protocol in 1991?

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University of Minnesota

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
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Which browser, released by NCSA in 1993, helped popularize the World Wide Web?

Answer

Mosaic

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
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On what date was the first ARPANET message sent?

Answer

October 29, 1969

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
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In what year was NSFNET officially decommissioned?

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1995

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