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  • 1. What weapons are used to attack the crude drawing in The Barney Fun Page?
A) Knife, gun, and other weapons
B) Hammer, club, and spear
C) Sword, bow, and arrows
D) Laser, bomb, and missile
  • 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) geocities.com
B) barneyfun.com
C) alberta.ca
D) impressive.net
  • 4. What type of humor does The Barney Fun Page represent?
A) Satirical political humor
B) Slapstick dinosaur comedy
C) Anti-Barney humor
D) Absurdist educational humor
  • 5. Under what name did BBC Online start in April 1994?
A) BBCi
B) BBC Web
C) BBC Online News
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) Oxford University Press
D) Open University Production Centre
  • 7. How did BBC Online provide transcription services after launching its first commercial service in September 1994?
A) Via a Gopher protocol
B) Via email newsletters
C) Via an FTP server
D) Via Usenet newsgroups
  • 8. How many accounts did BBC Online have at its peak?
A) 122 accounts
B) 50 accounts
C) 1,000 accounts
D) 500 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) United Nations delegations
C) CIA stations in Europe
D) Interpol headquarters
  • 10. At what web address is BBC Online still active?
A) bbci.co.uk
B) britishbroadcasting.com
C) bbc.com
D) bbc.co.uk
  • 11. What was Bianca's Smut Shack known for being?
A) An early web-based chatroom and online community
B) A government news portal
C) The first online bookstore
D) An alternative music archive
  • 12. What behaviors were associated with Bianca's Smut Shack?
A) Strict academic discussions
B) Polite financial trading
C) Quiet literary reviews
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 Gov Net
B) Civic Birmingham
C) Birmingham Online
D) Birmingham Assist
  • 14. Which department initially hosted Birmingham Assist?
A) Computer Science Department at the University of Birmingham
B) Faculty of Local Government Studies
C) School of Engineering and Informatics
D) Department of Public Administration
  • 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.birmingham.gov.uk/
C) www.birminghamassist.gov.uk
D) www.birminghamcity.net
  • 17. As what type of service did Encyclopaedia Britannica launch Britannica Online in 1994?
A) An open-source wiki
B) A subscription service
C) An ad-supported portal
D) A free public database
  • 18. What historic milestone did Britannica Online achieve?
A) It was the first online newspaper
B) It was the first Internet-based encyclopedia
C) It was the first commercial search engine
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) 2000
C) 2010
D) 2016
  • 20. What is the web address for Britannica Online since 2016?
A) www.britannicaonline.org
B) www.britannica.com
C) www.encyclopediabritannica.net
D) www.eb.com
  • 21. What was Buzzweb.com?
A) A website for alternative music artists and news
B) A software download repository
C) An online weather forecasting tool
D) A directory of financial services
  • 22. Who created Buzzweb.com?
A) Bill Gates and Paul Allen
B) Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau
C) A. Joi Brown and Matthew Brown
D) Darrow Boggiano and Yosef Kazen
  • 23. Between which years was Buzzweb.com created?
A) 1991 and 1992
B) 1993 and 1994
C) 1990 and 1991
D) 1994 and 1995
  • 24. With which organization did the creators register Buzzweb.com in 1993?
A) Domain Registrar Inc.
B) InterNIC
C) ICANN
D) Network Solutions
  • 25. Whose website was CDNAir.ca?
A) Air Canada
B) Delta Air Lines
C) Canadian Airlines
D) British Airways
  • 26. What milestone did CDNAir.ca achieve?
A) It was the first travel agency website
B) It was the first website for an airline
C) It was the first airline booking engine
D) It was the first paperless ticket system
  • 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 kosher recipe database
D) It was the first "ask the rabbi" website
  • 28. Who launched Chabad.org?
A) Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Kazen
B) Rabbi Darrow Boggiano
C) Rabbi Schneur Zalman
D) Rabbi Menachem Mendel
  • 29. Chabad.org was an outgrowth of earlier discussion groups on which network?
A) ARPANET
B) BBS Network
C) FidoNet
D) Usenet
  • 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) 1993
C) 1994
D) 1995
  • 33. In which geographic area did CitySites review events and advertise businesses?
A) New York metropolitan area
B) San Francisco Bay Area
C) Greater London area
D) Los Angeles county
  • 34. In which magazine was CitySites featured in 1997?
A) Wired Magazine
B) Interactive Week Magazine
C) Time Magazine
D) PC 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) 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) 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) Martijn Koster
B) Adam Curry
C) Colin Newman
D) Jonathon Fletcher
  • 39. The Joachim Jarre Society website was one of the first websites in which country?
A) Ireland
B) Norway
C) Scotland
D) United States
  • 40. Who launched JumpStation?
A) Justin Mason
B) Adam Curry
C) Paul Ginsparg
D) Jonathon Fletcher
  • 41. In which country was JumpStation hosted?
A) Ireland
B) United States
C) Scotland
D) Norway
  • 42. Who developed the LANL preprint archive?
A) Justin Mason
B) Paul Ginsparg
C) Jonathon Fletcher
D) Adam Curry
  • 43. What name did the LANL preprint archive take after moving to Cornell University?
A) ArXiv
B) The OTIS Project
C) Nexor
D) JumpStation
  • 44. What is the current web address of the LANL preprint archive?
A) arxiv.org
B) www.mtv.com
C) www.sito.org
D) www.iona.ie
  • 45. What nickname does LSD.com have in the text?
A) The world's first Web search engine
B) The art gallery
C) The campus newspaper
D) The digital acid test
  • 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) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B) SunSITE
C) University of Stirling
D) Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • 48. What is the current web address of The OTIS Project / SITO?
A) sito.org/
B) arxiv.org
C) www.mtv.com/
D) www.iona.ie
  • 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) Jonathon Fletcher
D) Colin Newman
  • 51. What role did Adam Curry hold at MTV?
A) VJ
B) Creator
C) Developer
D) System administrator
  • 52. Why did MTV sue Adam Curry?
A) For launching JumpStation
B) Over the rights to the domain
C) For creating the IONA Technologies website
D) For copying the LANL preprint archive
  • 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) sunsite.unc.edu
B) ncsa.uiuc.edu
C) fnal.gov
D) nic.nikhef.nl
  • 55. Which web browser was home at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications website?
A) Netscape Navigator
B) NCSA Mosaic
C) WorldWideWeb
D) Internet Explorer
  • 56. What feature on the National Center for Supercomputing Applications website did many people use as an early web directory?
A) RFCs page
B) Corpus of Electronic Texts
C) Library catalog
D) What's New? list
  • 57. Where is Fermilab located?
A) Netherlands
B) Illinois
C) North Carolina
D) Ohio
  • 58. When did SunSITE start as an FTP service?
A) 1993
B) 1992
C) 1990
D) 1991
  • 59. What was the name of Wright State University Library's first web presence?
A) LIBNET
B) CURIA
C) SunSITE
D) Mosaic
  • 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) December 1991
B) June 1992
C) 1993
D) August 1991
  • 62. Who created the first website?
A) Tim Berners-Lee
B) Paul Kunz
C) CERN researchers
D) Guido van Rossum
  • 63. Where was the first website created?
A) Stanford University
B) Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
C) CERN
D) SLAC
  • 64. How many websites were there by June 1992?
A) Ten
B) 2,278
C) Fifty
D) 623
  • 65. How many websites were there by the end of 1993?
A) 2,278
B) 623
C) 23,500
D) 10
  • 66. What was the total number of websites by the end of 1994?
A) 2,879
B) 2,278
C) 23,500
D) 623
  • 67. How many websites existed by June 1995?
A) 623
B) 23,500
C) Ten
D) 2,278
  • 68. How many total websites were established before 1995 according to the text?
A) 2,879
B) 2,278
C) 623
D) 23,500
  • 69. On which Usenet newsgroup was the Web publicly announced?
A) comp.www.misc
B) news.cern.ch
C) alt.web
D) alt.hypertext
  • 70. Which institution launched the first web server in North America?
A) Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
B) CERN
C) Stanford University Library
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) Paul Kunz
D) A CERN administrator
  • 72. What organization was Guido van Rossum affiliated with?
A) Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
B) Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
C) SLAC
D) CERN
  • 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) 1993
B) 1990
C) 1995
D) 1992
  • 75. In which city was CBSS located?
A) Cardiff, Wales
B) Houston, Texas
C) Santa Cruz, California
D) San Francisco, California
  • 76. Who established the first web page in Japan?
A) KEK
B) CBSS
C) IUMA
D) HUJI
  • 77. Who launched the Bluegrass Music News and Information website?
A) Matthew Gray
B) Yohei Morita
C) John Holt
D) Bob Cherr
  • 78. What kind of website is Bloomberg.com?
A) A webcomic
B) A financial portal
C) A music archive
D) A science museum
  • 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) Bob Cherr
B) John Holt
C) Yohei Morita
D) Matthew Gray
  • 81. In what year was the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) originally founded?
A) 1995
B) 1992
C) 1990
D) 1993
  • 82. Through which Usenet newsgroup did participants found IMDb?
A) rec.music.bluegrass
B) rec.arts.movies
C) alt.comics.doctor
D) sci.space.radar
  • 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) Bloomberg.com
C) Haystack Observatory
D) The Exploratorium
  • 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) 日本のサーバー
C) 日本のホームページ
D) 日本のインターネット
  • 86. What is the current website domain for NTT?
A) group.ntt/en
B) ntt-servers.jp
C) ntt.co.jp
D) japanwww.ntt
  • 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) Private
B) Restructured
C) Defunct
D) Active
  • 89. Who designed and founded photo.net?
A) Cliff Joslyn
B) Matt Davey
C) Philip Greenspun
D) Steve Putz
  • 90. Whose software, named Plexus, was used to establish the Trinity College Dublin mathematics website?
A) Valentin Turchin
B) Steve Putz
C) Justin Mason
D) Tony Sanders
  • 91. What was the original local system name of the Trojan Room coffee pot?
A) Trincoll
B) HotWired
C) XCoffee
D) ALIWEB
  • 92. What was Trincoll Journal?
A) An aquarium web feed
B) A search engine
C) A multimedia webzine
D) A movie studio website
  • 93. Which students published Trincoll Journal?
A) Trinity College
B) Netscape headquarters
C) Art Crimes Gallery
D) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • 94. Where was Trinity College located?
A) San Francisco Bay Area
B) Canada
C) New York City
D) Hartford, Connecticut
  • 95. Which company purchased Wired.com after it separated from the magazine?
A) Apple
B) MIT
C) Netscape
D) Lycos
  • 96. Where does the Amnesty International Canada website still operate?
A) amnesty.ca
B) www.pakin.org/complaint
C) www.wired.com
D) www.ama.org
  • 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) Lile Elam
B) Lou Montulli
C) Scott Pakin
D) Susan Farrell
  • 99. Who launched the website Art Crimes?
A) Matthew Gray
B) Martijn Koster
C) Susan Farrell
D) Lile Elam
  • 100. Who created The Amazing FishCam?
A) Scott Pakin
B) Lou Montulli
C) Susan Farrell
D) Lile Elam
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