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This U.S. Department of Defense project, launched in 1969, is considered the direct predecessor to the modern internet.
Difficulty: Easy- ARPANET
- MILNET
- NSFNET
- BITNET
This is the name of the first message ever sent over ARPANET on October 29, 1969, though it crashed after just two letters.
Difficulty: Medium- HELLO
- PING
- LOGIN
- CONNECT
This 1998 IPO for a social networking site became the largest first-day gain in Wall Street history at the time, exemplifying dot-com mania.
Difficulty: Hard- GeoCities
- Pets.com
- TheGlobe.com
- Broadcast.com
This scientist at CERN invented the World Wide Web in 1989 while working on a system to share documents among researchers.
Difficulty: Easy- Vint Cerf
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Marc Andreessen
- Robert Cailliau
These two Stanford PhD students developed the protocol that allows websites to be located using domain names instead of IP addresses.
Difficulty: Medium- Larry Page and Sergey Brin
- Paul Mockapetris and Jon Postel
- Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn
- Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark
This 1990 search tool, created by Alan Emtage at McGill University, was the first internet search engine, indexing FTP archives.
Difficulty: Hard- Archie
- Veronica
- Jughead
- WAIS
This company launched the first widely successful commercial web browser called Navigator in 1994.
Difficulty: Easy- Netscape
- Microsoft
- Apple
- IBM
This first-ever registered domain name, claimed on March 15, 1985, belonged to a Massachusetts computer company.
Difficulty: Medium- ibm.com
- think.com
- symbolics.com
- dec.com
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