| Question | Answer |
| 1. As a team your task is to locate the 5 QR Codes around the building. Team with the most correct answers wins. GO! | may the force be with you!
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2. What did the DARPA do in December 1969?http://www.brainpop.com/technology/computersandinternet/internet/ | ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) goes online in December, connecting four major U.S. universities. Designed for research, education, and government organizations, it provides a communications network linking the country in the event that a military attack destroys conventional communications systems.
| 3. What did Leonard Kleinrock of MIT develop? | Kleinrock developed the theory of packet switching, which was to form the basis of Internet connections.
| 4. Which elected official has done more to support the development and growth of the Internet from the 1970s to the present? | Al Gore
| 5. Who connected a Massachusetts computer with a California computer in 1965 and what did it prove? | 1965 working with Thomas Merrill, Roberts connected the TX-2 computer in Mass. to the Q-32 in California with a low speed dial-up telephone line creating the first (however small) wide-area computer network ever built. The result of this experiment was the realization that the time-shared computers could work well together, running programs and retrieving data as necessary on the remote machine, but that the circuit switched telephone system was totally inadequate for the job.
| 6. When and by whom was email developed? | Electronic mail is introduced in 1972 by Ray Tomlinson, a Cambridge, Mass., computer scientist. He uses the @ to distinguish between the sender's name and network name in the email address.
| 7. What is TCP/IP and when was it developed? | Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) is designed and in 1983 it becomes the standard for communicating between computers over the Internet. One of these protocols, FTP (File Transfer Protocol), allows users to log onto a remote computer, list the files on that computer, and download files from that computer.
| 8. Why is Usenet, established in 1979, important to the Internet today? | Newsgroups USENET still thrives today. Almost any topic now has a discussion group.
| 9.What did Archie and Wide Area Information Server provide to telnet users? | 1990 ability to search and navigate telnet precursor to browsers.
| 10. When was the word Internet used for the first time? | 1982
| 11. When did Quantum Computer Services debut and what did it offer? | 1985 America Online, debuts. It offers email, electronic bulletin boards, news, and other information.
| 12. What is the date of the first virus on the Internet and what was it called? | 1988 Internet Worm
| 13. What major event happened in 1989 to catapult the Internet out beyond universities? | WWW established and debuts as the first provider
| 14. In 1991 Gopher was invented. What did it provide? | point and Click
| 15. Who was the first state leader to send an email? | Queen Elizabeth 1976
| 16. When was the programming language Java released? | 1995
| 17. By 1996 how many people are using the Internet? | approximately 45 million
| 18. What Internet venture was launched in 1999 by Shawn Fanning? | Napster
| 19. How many people world wide were using the Internet in 2002? | Worldwide there are 544.2 million users.
| 20. When is Apple iTunes Music Store opened?Why is it significant? | Apple iTunes Music Store, which allows people
| 21. How many website are online in 2006? | 92 million websites online.
| 22. When is Youtube Launched? What types of videos were first uploaded? | 2005
| 23. What is the World Wide Web Consortium and why was it established in 1994? | The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community to led web to full potential and sets standards so can function smoothly
| 24. Robert Metcalfe invented the Ethernet in the 1970’s. What was it and is it still used today? | The Ethernet is a system for connecting computers within a building using hardware running from machine to machine. YES
| 25.In 2010 the US Senate authorizes US Dept of Homeland Security to seize what type of websites? | Those suspected of piracy
| 26. Browsers sparked the Internet boom of the 1990s. Name the first two browsers. | 1990 WorldWideWeb (Nexus) and `93 Mosaic (Netscape) |
