1) Who is the computer scientist most commonly called “the father of the Internet”?
Ans: VINT CERF
2) Who, in 1999, expressed the following vision for the future of the Web?
“I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web – the content, links, and transactions between people and computers. A 'Semantic Web', which should make this possible, has yet to emerge, but when it does, the day-to-day mechanisms of trade, bureaucracy and our daily lives will be handled by machines talking to machines. The 'intelligent agents' people have touted for ages will finally materialize.”
Ans: Tim Berners Lee
3) What is the name of the main international standards organization for the Web?
Ans: The World Wide Web Consortium
4) On what OS/hardware combination did the first Web browser and Web server run?
Ans: Apple Macintosh
5)What is the standard networking protocol underlying the Internet?
Ans: TCP/IP v4
6) Who invented hypertext?
Ans: Ted Nelson and Douglas Engelbart
7) What wise, wise man once said of people’s tendency (in English) to pronounce each “w” in the “www.” prefix of Web addresses:
“The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened form takes three times longer to say than what it’s short for.”
Ans: Douglas Adams
8) As of the beginning of 2009, approximately how many people were estimated to be using the Internet?
Ans: 1.5 Billion
9)What is the acronym UUCP an abbreviation of?
Ans: Unix-to-Unix Copy Program
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