List of websites founded before 1995 - Quiz
  • 1. What weapons are used to attack the crude drawing in The Barney Fun Page?
A) Knife, gun, and other weapons
B) Sword, bow, and arrows
C) Laser, bomb, and missile
D) Hammer, club, and spear
  • 2. Where was The Barney Fun Page originally hosted in October 1994?
A) A Harvard University server
B) A University of Alberta computer system
C) An MIT computer lab
D) Stanford University network
  • 3. To which domain did The Barney Fun Page move in 1996?
A) alberta.ca
B) impressive.net
C) geocities.com
D) barneyfun.com
  • 4. What type of humor does The Barney Fun Page represent?
A) Absurdist educational humor
B) Slapstick dinosaur comedy
C) Satirical political humor
D) Anti-Barney humor
  • 5. Under what name did BBC Online start in April 1994?
A) BBCi
B) BBC Online News
C) BBC Web
D) British Broadcasting Net
  • 6. Which center provided content for BBC Online at its inception alongside regional information?
A) Open University Production Centre
B) British Broadcasting Training Centre
C) Oxford University Press
D) London Media Production Hub
  • 7. How did BBC Online provide transcription services after launching its first commercial service in September 1994?
A) Via an FTP server
B) Via email newsletters
C) Via a Gopher protocol
D) Via Usenet newsgroups
  • 8. How many accounts did BBC Online have at its peak?
A) 500 accounts
B) 50 accounts
C) 1,000 accounts
D) 122 accounts
  • 9. Which prominent global offices were among the accounts taking daily updates from BBC Online's twelve feeds?
A) CIA stations in Europe
B) FBI offices from around the world
C) Interpol headquarters
D) United Nations delegations
  • 10. At what web address is BBC Online still active?
A) britishbroadcasting.com
B) bbc.com
C) bbc.co.uk
D) bbci.co.uk
  • 11. What was Bianca's Smut Shack known for being?
A) An early web-based chatroom and online community
B) An alternative music archive
C) The first online bookstore
D) A government news portal
  • 12. What behaviors were associated with Bianca's Smut Shack?
A) Raucous free speech and deviant behavior
B) Strict academic discussions
C) Polite financial trading
D) Quiet literary reviews
  • 13. What was the name of the early local government site created by Birmingham City Council?
A) Birmingham Gov Net
B) Civic Birmingham
C) Birmingham Online
D) Birmingham Assist
  • 14. Which department initially hosted Birmingham Assist?
A) Faculty of Local Government Studies
B) Department of Public Administration
C) Computer Science Department at the University of Birmingham
D) School of Engineering and Informatics
  • 15. In what year was Birmingham Assist renamed?
A) 1996
B) 1994
C) 1995
D) 1997
  • 16. What is the current web address where Birmingham City Council's site functions?
A) www.birmingham.co.uk/
B) www.birminghamcity.net
C) www.birmingham.gov.uk/
D) www.birminghamassist.gov.uk
  • 17. As what type of service did Encyclopaedia Britannica launch Britannica Online in 1994?
A) A free public database
B) An open-source wiki
C) A subscription service
D) An ad-supported portal
  • 18. What historic milestone did Britannica Online achieve?
A) It was the first Internet-based encyclopedia
B) It was the first commercial search engine
C) It was the first website on the World Wide Web
D) It was the first online newspaper
  • 19. Since what year has Encyclopaedia Britannica been published exclusively online?
A) 2000
B) 2016
C) 1994
D) 2010
  • 20. What is the web address for Britannica Online since 2016?
A) www.britannicaonline.org
B) www.encyclopediabritannica.net
C) www.eb.com
D) www.britannica.com
  • 21. What was Buzzweb.com?
A) A directory of financial services
B) A software download repository
C) An online weather forecasting tool
D) A website for alternative music artists and news
  • 22. Who created Buzzweb.com?
A) Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau
B) Bill Gates and Paul Allen
C) Darrow Boggiano and Yosef Kazen
D) A. Joi Brown and Matthew Brown
  • 23. Between which years was Buzzweb.com created?
A) 1994 and 1995
B) 1991 and 1992
C) 1993 and 1994
D) 1990 and 1991
  • 24. With which organization did the creators register Buzzweb.com in 1993?
A) Domain Registrar Inc.
B) ICANN
C) InterNIC
D) Network Solutions
  • 25. Whose website was CDNAir.ca?
A) Delta Air Lines
B) British Airways
C) Air Canada
D) Canadian Airlines
  • 26. What milestone did CDNAir.ca achieve?
A) It was the first paperless ticket system
B) It was the first travel agency website
C) It was the first airline booking engine
D) It was the first website for an airline
  • 27. What distinction did Chabad.org hold?
A) It was the first "ask the rabbi" website
B) It was the first religious digital archive
C) It was the first online synagogue
D) It was the first kosher recipe database
  • 28. Who launched Chabad.org?
A) Rabbi Schneur Zalman
B) Rabbi Menachem Mendel
C) Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Kazen
D) Rabbi Darrow Boggiano
  • 29. Chabad.org was an outgrowth of earlier discussion groups on which network?
A) ARPANET
B) FidoNet
C) Usenet
D) BBS Network
  • 30. In what year did the FidoNet discussion groups that inspired Chabad.org date back to?
A) 1984
B) 1992
C) 1988
D) 1990
  • 31. What type of company was CitySites?
A) The first online advertising agency
B) The first internet service provider
C) The first "City Site" web development company
D) The first search engine company
  • 32. In what year did CitySites create its website to advertise businesses and review music and art events?
A) 1996
B) 1994
C) 1995
D) 1993
  • 33. In which geographic area did CitySites review events and advertise businesses?
A) San Francisco Bay Area
B) Greater London area
C) New York metropolitan area
D) Los Angeles county
  • 34. In which magazine was CitySites featured in 1997?
A) PC Magazine
B) Time Magazine
C) Wired Magazine
D) Interactive Week Magazine
  • 35. Who is the founder that still operates CitySites?
A) Yosef Yitzchak Kazen
B) A. Joi Brown
C) Darrow Boggiano
D) Matthew Brown
  • 36. Who created the IONA Technologies website?
A) Jonathon Fletcher
B) Colin Newman
C) Justin Mason
D) Paul Ginsparg
  • 37. The IONA Technologies website was the first website in which country run by a commercial company?
A) Norway
B) Scotland
C) Ireland
D) United States
  • 38. Who helped Justin Mason put together web pages for IONA Technologies and its object request broker?
A) Jonathon Fletcher
B) Colin Newman
C) Martijn Koster
D) Adam Curry
  • 39. The Joachim Jarre Society website was one of the first websites in which country?
A) Ireland
B) United States
C) Scotland
D) Norway
  • 40. Who launched JumpStation?
A) Justin Mason
B) Jonathon Fletcher
C) Paul Ginsparg
D) Adam Curry
  • 41. In which country was JumpStation hosted?
A) United States
B) Norway
C) Ireland
D) Scotland
  • 42. Who developed the LANL preprint archive?
A) Adam Curry
B) Justin Mason
C) Jonathon Fletcher
D) Paul Ginsparg
  • 43. What name did the LANL preprint archive take after moving to Cornell University?
A) The OTIS Project
B) JumpStation
C) ArXiv
D) Nexor
  • 44. What is the current web address of the LANL preprint archive?
A) www.mtv.com
B) www.iona.ie
C) arxiv.org
D) www.sito.org
  • 45. What nickname does LSD.com have in the text?
A) The art gallery
B) The world's first Web search engine
C) The digital acid test
D) The campus newspaper
  • 46. What was The OTIS Project later known as?
A) SITO
B) ArXiv
C) JumpStation
D) Nexor
  • 47. By what entity was The OTIS Project hosted?
A) SunSITE
B) University of Stirling
C) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
D) Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • 48. What is the current web address of The OTIS Project / SITO?
A) www.iona.ie
B) sito.org/
C) arxiv.org
D) www.mtv.com/
  • 49. Who created a website for Nexor?
A) Adam Curry
B) Paul Ginsparg
C) Justin Mason
D) Martijn Koster
  • 50. Who registered the music television network MTV's domain in 1993?
A) Jonathon Fletcher
B) Martijn Koster
C) Adam Curry
D) Colin Newman
  • 51. What role did Adam Curry hold at MTV?
A) Creator
B) Developer
C) System administrator
D) VJ
  • 52. Why did MTV sue Adam Curry?
A) For launching JumpStation
B) Over the rights to the domain
C) For copying the LANL preprint archive
D) For creating the IONA Technologies website
  • 53. When did Nikhef launch the third website in the world?
A) February 1992
B) 1991
C) June 1992
D) April 1992
  • 54. What was the original URL of the Nikhef website?
A) fnal.gov
B) nic.nikhef.nl
C) ncsa.uiuc.edu
D) sunsite.unc.edu
  • 55. Which web browser was home at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications website?
A) Netscape Navigator
B) Internet Explorer
C) NCSA Mosaic
D) WorldWideWeb
  • 56. What feature on the National Center for Supercomputing Applications website did many people use as an early web directory?
A) RFCs page
B) What's New? list
C) Corpus of Electronic Texts
D) Library catalog
  • 57. Where is Fermilab located?
A) Netherlands
B) North Carolina
C) Ohio
D) Illinois
  • 58. When did SunSITE start as an FTP service?
A) 1990
B) 1993
C) 1991
D) 1992
  • 59. What was the name of Wright State University Library's first web presence?
A) SunSITE
B) CURIA
C) Mosaic
D) LIBNET
  • 60. Who saw Tim Berners-Lee demonstrating the Web at a RARE WG3 meeting?
A) Sun Microsystems
B) Nikhef
C) Tim Berners-Lee
D) Peter Flynn
  • 61. When was the first website created?
A) August 1991
B) 1993
C) June 1992
D) December 1991
  • 62. Who created the first website?
A) Guido van Rossum
B) Paul Kunz
C) CERN researchers
D) Tim Berners-Lee
  • 63. Where was the first website created?
A) Stanford University
B) SLAC
C) CERN
D) Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
  • 64. How many websites were there by June 1992?
A) 2,278
B) Fifty
C) Ten
D) 623
  • 65. How many websites were there by the end of 1993?
A) 2,278
B) 623
C) 10
D) 23,500
  • 66. What was the total number of websites by the end of 1994?
A) 2,278
B) 23,500
C) 2,879
D) 623
  • 67. How many websites existed by June 1995?
A) 623
B) 2,278
C) Ten
D) 23,500
  • 68. How many total websites were established before 1995 according to the text?
A) 623
B) 23,500
C) 2,879
D) 2,278
  • 69. On which Usenet newsgroup was the Web publicly announced?
A) alt.hypertext
B) alt.web
C) news.cern.ch
D) comp.www.misc
  • 70. Which institution launched the first web server in North America?
A) Stanford University Library
B) CERN
C) Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
D) Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
  • 71. Who conducted a robot web crawl near the end of 1992?
A) Guido van Rossum
B) Tim Berners-Lee
C) A CERN administrator
D) Paul Kunz
  • 72. What organization was Guido van Rossum affiliated with?
A) CERN
B) Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
C) SLAC
D) Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
  • 73. Which website was a manifestation of youngmonkey?
A) Cybergrass
B) Doctor Fun
C) simianpress
D) CBSS
  • 74. In what year did simianpress merge with youngmonkey?
A) 1992
B) 1995
C) 1993
D) 1990
  • 75. In which city was CBSS located?
A) Houston, Texas
B) Santa Cruz, California
C) Cardiff, Wales
D) San Francisco, California
  • 76. Who established the first web page in Japan?
A) IUMA
B) KEK
C) HUJI
D) CBSS
  • 77. Who launched the Bluegrass Music News and Information website?
A) Bob Cherr
B) Yohei Morita
C) Matthew Gray
D) John Holt
  • 78. What kind of website is Bloomberg.com?
A) A financial portal
B) A webcomic
C) A science museum
D) A music archive
  • 79. Who created Global Network Navigator?
A) simianpress
B) CBSS, Inc.
C) O'Reilly Media
D) National Center for Supercomputing Applications
  • 80. Who rolled out the content for the Haystack Observatory website?
A) Yohei Morita
B) Bob Cherr
C) Matthew Gray
D) John Holt
  • 81. In what year was the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) originally founded?
A) 1992
B) 1993
C) 1990
D) 1995
  • 82. Through which Usenet newsgroup did participants found IMDb?
A) rec.arts.movies
B) rec.music.bluegrass
C) sci.space.radar
D) alt.comics.doctor
  • 83. What audio format did IUMA use to share music?
A) MP2
B) MP3
C) WAV
D) AAC
  • 84. Which website provided data access for science users regarding its radio and radar remote sensing mission?
A) KEK
B) Haystack Observatory
C) The Exploratorium
D) Bloomberg.com
  • 85. What was the Japanese title for the NTT web page 'WWW Servers in Japan'?
A) 日本のウェブサイト
B) 日本のインターネット
C) 日本のホームページ
D) 日本のサーバー
  • 86. What is the current website domain for NTT?
A) japanwww.ntt
B) ntt.co.jp
C) group.ntt/en
D) ntt-servers.jp
  • 87. Who created the PARC Researcher website by tying an existing map viewing program to the Web?
A) Francis Heylighen
B) Philip Greenspun
C) Steve Putz
D) James Casey
  • 88. What is the current operational status of the PARC Researcher website?
A) Defunct
B) Active
C) Restructured
D) Private
  • 89. Who designed and founded photo.net?
A) Cliff Joslyn
B) Philip Greenspun
C) Steve Putz
D) Matt Davey
  • 90. Whose software, named Plexus, was used to establish the Trinity College Dublin mathematics website?
A) Tony Sanders
B) Valentin Turchin
C) Justin Mason
D) Steve Putz
  • 91. What was the original local system name of the Trojan Room coffee pot?
A) HotWired
B) XCoffee
C) ALIWEB
D) Trincoll
  • 92. What was Trincoll Journal?
A) An aquarium web feed
B) A movie studio website
C) A multimedia webzine
D) A search engine
  • 93. Which students published Trincoll Journal?
A) Netscape headquarters
B) Trinity College
C) Art Crimes Gallery
D) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • 94. Where was Trinity College located?
A) New York City
B) Hartford, Connecticut
C) Canada
D) San Francisco Bay Area
  • 95. Which company purchased Wired.com after it separated from the magazine?
A) MIT
B) Netscape
C) Lycos
D) Apple
  • 96. Where does the Amnesty International Canada website still operate?
A) amnesty.ca
B) www.pakin.org/complaint
C) www.ama.org
D) www.wired.com
  • 97. Where are snapshots of early versions of apple.com available?
A) Trinity College
B) Version Museum
C) Art Crimes Gallery
D) Graffiti Archives
  • 98. Who created Art.Net?
A) Susan Farrell
B) Scott Pakin
C) Lile Elam
D) Lou Montulli
  • 99. Who launched the website Art Crimes?
A) Martijn Koster
B) Susan Farrell
C) Matthew Gray
D) Lile Elam
  • 100. Who created The Amazing FishCam?
A) Scott Pakin
B) Lou Montulli
C) Lile Elam
D) Susan Farrell
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