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