Internet

Question 1

When did the tech revolution begin?

Answer 1

1969

Question 2

How did the United States contribute to the internet ?

Answer 2

The Advance Research Projects Agency (ARPA) developed many of the technologies used for internet communication today. The internet was also an idea created during the cold war in thoughts of nuclear warfare communications, but never came true.

Question 3

What is ARPANET?

Answer 3

It was a connection of computers from a several universities that was first done by ARPA. It wasn’t for communication and was used mostly for shared computer power. Paul Baran was the lead inventor.

Question 4

Who is Sir Tim Berners Lee?

Answer 4

He solved the problem of a mess from the incompantibility of differnet networks and CERN systems leading him to inventing the World Wide Web. He created this because he wanted the researchers to be able to communicate and share their research and results with each other more easily eventually leading to more progress being done.

Question 5

What is the internet?

Answer 5

It is the infrastructure of the network.

Question 6

Did Tim Berners Lee patentient the World Wide Web?

Answer 6

No

Question 7

What is the modern internet?

Answer 7

It is a huge array of interconnected points around the world.

Question 8

What are sea plows?

Answer 8

They are machines that lay and dig holes for fiber optic cabels to lay in allowing the water to bury them later.

Question 9

What was the 2008 submarine cable disruption?

Answer 9

Due to damaged cables much of India and the Middle East lost all access to the internet.

Question 10

What is The Internet Corporation for Asigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)?

Answer 10

It is a nonprofit open and transparent corportation that manage the domain name system (DNS) with members from all around the world.

Question 11

What is the World Wide Web Consortium?

Answer 11

A corporation ran by Sir Tim Berners Lee

Question 12

What is the World Wide Web Consortium?

Answer 12

A corporation ran by Sir Tim Berners Lee

Question 13

How did the British contribute to the internet?

Answer 13

They came up with the idea of packet switching in a computer system called NPL.

Question 14

How did the French contribute to the internet?

Answer 14

They worked on Cyclades and coined the term Le Internet.

Question 15

How long was the internet in the making?

Answer 15

It was in the making for 40 years.

Question 16

What is packet switching?

Answer 16

A way of advoiding congestion in busy networks by cutting up data at one end and putting it back together in the other.

Question 17

What was Cyclades?

Answer 17

It was a computer network and connections that were physically connected together.

Question 18

What was NPL?

Answer 18

A computer network concept that invented the idea of packet switching.

Question 19

What is TCP/IP?

Answer 19

A set of protocals that form the basic communication language of the internet, which labels the packets of data and makes sure that even though some pieces of the same data take a different route, they all arive at their destination and can be reassembled.

Question 20

When did networks really start to communicating to each other?

Answer 20

In 1975

Question 21

What is the history of email?

Answer 21

It was developed for ARPANET in 1972 and was quickly popularized in universities.

Question 22

How did Tim Berners Lee invent the World Wide Web?

Answer 22

He created an interface using HTTP, HTML, and URLs. This made internet browsers possible.

Question 23

When was the first ever website created?

Answer 23

It was created in August 1991.

Question 24

When was the internet offically workable for the masses?

Answer 24

1995

Question 25

When was the internet designed?

Answer 25

Early 1970s

Question 26

Who designed the internet?

Answer 26

Bob Kahn, and Vint Cerf