Dates and events
In what year did the first ARPANET connection take place?
1969.
Who is often called the “father of the Internet” for co-developing TCP/IP?
Vint Cerf (with Bob Kahn)
What does ARPANET stand for?
Advanced Research Projects Agency Network.
What does WWW stand for?
World Wide Web.
What was the first word ever sent over ARPANET?
“LO” (they tried to send LOGIN but the system crashed).
Which two universities were connected in the first ARPANET link?
UCLA and Stanford
Who invented the World Wide Web?
Tim Berners-Lee.
What is packet switching?
A method of breaking data into packets to be sent across a network.
What was the first web browser created by Tim Berners-Lee?
WorldWideWeb (later renamed Nexus).
The Internet was originally developed for which purpose?
Military research and communication (funded by ARPA).
When did TCP/IP become the standard protocol for ARPANET?
1983.
Who worked on the concept of packet switching, essential for Internet communication?
Leonard Kleinrock (also Paul Baran and Donald Davies)
What does TCP/IP stand for?
Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
What was the first popular graphical browser?
Mosaic.
What symbol is commonly used in email addresses?
The @ symbol.
In what year did Tim Berners-Lee create the World Wide Web?
1989 (first website went live in 1991).
At which organization did Tim Berners-Lee develop the Web?
CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research).
What’s the difference between the Internet and the Web?
The Internet is the global network of computers; the Web is a system of interlinked documents accessed via browsers.
Which browser replaced Mosaic and became very popular in the mid-90s?
Netscape Navigator.
Who is credited with choosing the @ symbol for email?
Ray Tomlinson, in 1971.
What major Internet milestone happened in the mid-1990s?
The Internet became commercialized and available to the public.
Who created the first graphical web browser, Mosaic, in 1993?
Marc Andreessen (with Eric Bina).
What is DNS and why is it important?
Domain Name System; it translates domain names into IP addresses.
What kind of language did Tim Berners-Lee create to build web pages?
HTML (HyperText Markup Language).
Which term describes the main data routes that connect large networks across the world?
The Internet backbone.