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