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What company developed the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol?

Answer

Netscape

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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In what year was the first international connection made to ARPANET?

Answer

1973

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What symbol did Ray Tomlinson choose to separate username from host in email?

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@

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In what year was the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) founded?

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1994

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In what year did Tim Berners-Lee propose the World Wide Web?

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1989

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What was the name of the first website to sell a product online?

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NetMarket

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
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Which research center hosted the first web server in the United States?

Answer

SLAC

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What was the name of the first image ever uploaded to the web?

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Les Horribles Cernettes

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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What product was advertised in the first spam email?

Answer

DEC computers

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What was the name of the first wiki?

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WikiWikiWeb

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

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mitre.org

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What was the title of the first website?

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World Wide Web project

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