Internet & memes
The “The history of the internet” quiz — Internet & memes. It has 25 questions in five categories: Network roots, Protocols & names, Birth of the Web, Mail & documents, The network grows. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.
The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.
Which U.S. research network, launched in 1969, became the main precursor of today's internet?
What method splits data into small blocks that can be routed independently?
Which U.S. network, launched…
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What device forwards data between different networks by choosing the next path?
Which system maps domain names to numerical network addresses?
Which protocol suite became…
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The photo shows who, the person who proposed at CERN in 1989 the system that became the World Wide Web?
Which protocol in the original Web system transferred hypertext documents between client and server?
Which NCSA browser, released…
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In the gameWhich service already made up well over half of the early research network's traffic by 1973?
Which symbol was chosen to separate the user name from the host name in a network address?
Who at BBN wrote…
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Which local networking technology did Robert Metcalfe propose at Xerox PARC in 1973?
How many nodes were connected to the original U.S. research network by the end of 1969?
Which Menlo Park institution…
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In the gameAll 25 questions and the answers are in the game. Invite your class or friends with a link — guests need no account.