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Miscellaneous
100
Designed the first commercial modem.
What is AT &T?
100
Could be dismantled by a reed switch operated by a magnet taped onto the outside of the box.
What is the blue box?
100
Name of the military service derived from ARPANET.
What is Milnet?
100
Mosaic was originally designed for this type of system
What is Unix system running x-windows?
100
What the Southern National Bank did first.
What is install automatic teller machines?
200
This converted digital computer data to analog signals across its long distance network.
What is dataphone?
200
The year Queen Elizabeth sent out her first e-mail to demonstrate networking technology.
What is 1976?
200
The year the National Science Foundation opened up the Internet for commercial use.
What is 1991?
200
Man who developed hyper text transfer protocol.
Who is Tim Berners-Lee?
200
Larry Roberts did this in 1975 and linked customers in seven cities.
What is developed Telnet?
300
The man who greatly improved the accoustically coupled modem.
What is John van Geen?
300
Sent the first e-mail when he was supposed to be working on a different project.
Who is Ray Tomlinson?
300
Network linking five supercomputer centers at Cornell University, Princeton University, Pittsburgh, University of California at San Diego and University of Illonois at Urbana-Champaign.
What is NSFNET?
300
Who are the two men who designed Mosaic?
Who is Eric Bina and Marc Andreesen?
300
Invented as a means of providing mail and file transfers using a communications standard called UUCP.
What is USENET?
400
In 1964, the amount of time it took for delivering data on any flight using the Sabre Reservation System.
What is three seconds?
400
He devised the ethernet method of network connection at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.
Who is Dr. Robert Metcalfe?
400
ARPANET was renamed Internet in this year.
What is 1995?
400
The first commercial software that allowed graphical access to the content on the Internet.
What is Mosaic?
400
Developed uniform resource locators.
Who is Tim Berners-Lee?
500
In 1966, this connected computers to the telephone network by means of the standard telephone handset of the day.
What is the accoustically coupled modem?
500
In 1975, the name of first commercial packet-switching network and civilian equivalent to ARPANET.
What is Telnet?
500
These two men started an online bulletin board to build a virtual community of computer users at low cost.
Who is Stewart Brand and Larry Brilliant?
500
Follows links and sends a query to a server allowing a user to view a site.
What is a browser?
500
Two men who, while working at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, discovered the computer "worm," a short program that searches a network for idle processors.
Who are John Shoch and Jon Hupp?