Internet Tech

Question 1

computer scientist named Vinton Cerf developed what for computers to communicate?

Accepted Answer

TCP, IP

Question 2

After Sputnik's launch, many Americans began to think more about science and technology.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 3

What course was added to schools after the Sputnik scare?

Accepted Answer

Chemistry, Physics, Calculus

Question 4

Just one _______, they feared, could destroy the whole network of lines and wires

Accepted Answer

Missile

Question 5

federal government itself formed new agencies, such as what?

Accepted Answer

DARPA, NASA

Question 6

What did Sputnik do after getting into space?

Accepted Answer

Sent blips and bleeps from its radio, Orbited the Earth

Question 7

Who introduced the World Wide Web

Accepted Answer

Tim Berners-Lee

Question 8

On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the world’s first manmade satellite into orbit.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 9

Who created a “galactic network” of computers that could talk to one another

Accepted Answer

J.C.R. Licklider

Question 10

What was the first word to be messaged in 1969?

Accepted Answer

"LOGIN"

Question 11

who was the inventor of the Internet?

Accepted Answer

No single "inventor"

Question 12

the government’s computer network was known as what?

Accepted Answer

ARPAnet

Question 13

In 1971, it added the University of Hawaii’s ALOHAnet.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 14

How did the internet get its start in the U.S.?

Accepted Answer

As a government weapon in the Cold War

Question 15

In 1992, a group of students at the University of Illinois developed a browser called?

Accepted Answer

Netscape, Mosaic

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