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1
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What does TELNET stand for and what year?

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TELetype NETwork, 1969

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When was Unix V4 and what programming language was it written? And what function did it introduce?

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1973, written in C and it introduced Pipes

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Who introduced the term packet and what year

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Donald Davies (NPL) in 1965-1966

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When was NSFNET upgraded and to what?

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1988, Upgraded to T1

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Who is the inventor of ARPANET email

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Ray Tomlinson, inventor of the @ sign in email

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When was IRC created and by who?

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1988, Jarkko Oikarinen

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What happened in 1984

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Apple started commercial against IBM

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What are VDUs and what year was the development and what year common?

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Video Display Unit terminals. Development 1960s more common 1970s.

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When did SURFnet start?

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1988

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What were the first available protocols?

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TELNET, FTP (File Transfer Protocol)

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When was Npaster and what technology?

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1999, File sharing and P2P technology

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What is VAX and when did Unix use it?

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Virtual Address Extension, 1979.

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13
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“We will never do this again? Who and what?

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Jon Postel (UCLA), Great switch: NCP to TCP/IP

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14
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When was System V, what did it lead to/starting point?

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1983, Leads to SVR4. Starting point for the SUS (Single Unix Specification)

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What is an IMP?

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Interface Message Processor

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16
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Who invented message blocks and what uni

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Paul Baran UCLA

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17
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When was NREN and what did stand for?

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1988, National Research and Education Network. Operated networks in many countries

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18
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What is RFC #675 and when

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Specification of Internet Transmission Control Program in 1974. Was later split into transport layer protocol.

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19
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Between who was first telnet connection?

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UCLA (Kleinrock) > SRI (Engelbart)

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When was Unix V7 and what is UUCP/by who?

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1979, set of UNIX programs for copying files between different UNIX systems. By Mike Lesk (Bell Labs)

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21
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When was 4.3BSD and what did it include?

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1986, DNS implementation. Widely deployed.

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RFC of the net on Unix, year and inventor?

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RFC #681, 1975, Steve Holmgren

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23
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When did NSFNET upgrade to T3 and speed?

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1990 45Mbps

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24
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When was the great renaming (Usenet newsgroups)?

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1987

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25
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What did Eric Allman invent

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Message/Mail Transfer Agent (MTA).

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26
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When was 3BSD invented and what did it implement

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1979, implements virtual memory

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27
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When was Gopher?

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1991

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28
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When was Unix 4.3-Reno

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1990

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29
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When was Unix V1 and on what was it ran?

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1971, PDP-7 and PDP-9. Written in Assembly (chmod, chown, chdir)

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30
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When was death of the net and why?

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1995, Commercialisation, lack of security/privacy.

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31
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When was final BSD release and what?

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1995, 4.4BSD-Lite Release 2

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32
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Who invented ADM-3A, when and what specs?

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Lear Siegler, introduced in 1976. Still TTL Logic but using random access memory.

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33
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When was the first TELNET connection

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1969

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34
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Creation of DARPA and meaning of DARPA

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1958, Defense ARPA

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35
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Father of RFCs and what is #1 RFC?

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Steve Crocker on “Host Software”

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When was 4.4BSD and Mosaic launched?

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1993

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37
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What RFC’s were SMTP?

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RFC 821, RFC 2821, RFC 5321

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38
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When was 386BSD and origins of what?

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1994, Origin of FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD

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39
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When and what was the great controversy

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1977, TCP / IP versus OSI model (Theory vs Practice)

40
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Who is Bill Joy

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Creator of the vi editor. Co founder of SUN

41
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Who is Wesley Clark (MIT)

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Suggested the use of minicomputers for network packet switches

42
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What does TCP and IP stand for? And when

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Tranmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol - 1974

43
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Difference Internet and internet

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internet = any network of networks. Internet is the global TCP/IP-based network

44
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When Internet of Things

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2008

45
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Who invented C, when and what is it?

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Dennis Ritchie, 1969, C is developed from B (just next alphabetic letter)

46
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When was more support for collaboration and ARPANET mailing lists

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1976

47
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In what Unix version were C compiler and tools introduced?

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Version 2.

48
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What happened in 1975

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Unix on The Net

49
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Important features of PDP-7

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Interactive access (terminals) and Time-sharing (multitasking or multiprogramming)

50
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When was Facebook and Twitter?

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Facebook: 2004. Twitter: 2006

51
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When was DEC’s VT52 introduced and did it have a CPU

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1975, it had no CPU only logic gates

52
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When was the great switch? From what to what. And address space growth

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1983, NCP > TCP/IP. 2^8 to 2^32

53
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Who connected first IMP as an ARPANET node and what year?

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Leonard Kleinrock (UCLA) in 1969

54
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Extensive use of virtualisation?

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Grid: 2004. Cloud 2007.

55
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When/what was modern era?

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1995-2021. Open source movement, immense security problems/privacy issues. Cloud big data.

56
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What is the ARPANET based on?

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IMPs and NCP (Network Control Program)

57
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HoneyDanBer, what and by who?

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Improvement of UUCP. Peter Honeyman, David A. Nowitz and Brian E. Redman

58
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Bits of VAX and successor to what?

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32-bit successor to PDP-11’s 16-bit

59
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Who invented B, when and what is it?

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Ken Thompson, 1969, Simpler version of BCPL (Basic Combined Programming Language)

60
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What version of Unix in 1988 and to what did it lead?

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4.3-Tahoe. Lead to Netowrking Release 1 (Net/1) in 1989. First release completely free of AT&T license

61
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When was PDP-7 and by what two was it influenced?

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1964 CTSS (Compatible Time-Sharing System) and followup Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service)

62
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When was Usenet/Netnews?

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1979, this was for the news

63
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Who and what is BBN

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Company (Bolt, Beranek and Newman) that got development contract to build IMP for ARPANET in 1969

64
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When was WWW invented and introduced?

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1990-1992

65
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What is the famous model of teletype corporation and in what year?

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Model 33 in 1963. Functions were ASCII with a parity bit and optional tape punch and reader.

66
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When did ISOC start?

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1991, Internet SOCiety

67
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What year were there plans for an ARPANET. And what type of network?

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1966, first wide-area packet switching network

68
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When was Unix V6

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1975

69
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When was linux 1.0 and origins?

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1994, Origin of Red Hat, (open)SUSE, Debian, Ubuntu

70
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Bitcoin?

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2009

71
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Who was the four node ARPANET between?

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UCLA, (California, LA) SRI (Stanford Research Institute), UCSB (California, Santa Barbara), UofU (Utah, Salt lake City)

72
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What is Teletype also called

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Teleprinter, teletypewriter, TTY

73
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Replacement of C news and who?

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InterNetNews (INN). RIch Salz. 1991

74
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When was TCP/IP Specified and by who?

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1974 by Vinton Cerf (Stanford) and Bob Kahn (DARPA). Intended replacement for NCP

75
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What did DNS replace and what RFC’s

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Replaced hosts.txt file. RFC 1034 and 1035

76
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When Big Data and data science?

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2012

77
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When was 4.2BSD and what did it include?

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1983, Includes TCP/IP and r-progs (s-progs nowadays)

78
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When was SMTP introduced?

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1982

79
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When/what was XMPP

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1999, Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol. Used by Google: Talk and Facebook: Chat

80
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When were MX records introduced into DNS

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1986, Mail eXchanger record, used for routing email

81
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What was DEC’s VT100, when and what functionality

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Video Display Unit terminal, in 1978. Uses CPU (Intel 8080) and implemented ANSI escape codes

82
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When was NET /2 released?

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1991

83
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What lead to shutdown of ARPANET and what year?

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NSFNET, lead to shutdown in 1989

84
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RFC of NNTP, authors?

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RFC #977 (obsoleted by #3977). Brian Kantor, Phil Lapsley. Promoted Netnews to a real Internet application

85
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Who studied message switching and what year?

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Leonard Kleinrock, 1963

86
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When were the Unix wars?

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1983, BSD versus System V

87
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Who is the father of ARPANET

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Larry Roberts (MIT/ARPA)

88
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When did blogging start?

A

1999

89
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When was dot-com bubble?

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2000-2002

90
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B News to C News authors and year?

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Geoff Collyer. Henry Spencer. 1987. Used NNTP via nntpd

91
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When was NNTP specified and definition and port?

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1986, Network News Transfer Protocol. Port 119

92
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When did graphical web browsing take off?

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1995

93
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When was DNS specified and by who + RFC?

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1984, RFC #882. Paul Mockapetris (ISI/USC)

94
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Symbols from Universities for complex email routing?

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@ ARPANET, ! UUCP, : Berknet

95
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Who founded UUNET and what was it?

A

Rick Adams, a large ISP

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