How the Internet Actually Happened

What this quiz asks

• In 1969 the first message sent over ARPANET crashed the system after just two letters. Which two?
• Who wrote the 1989 proposal that became the World Wide Web?
• Ray Tomlinson picked the @ symbol for email addresses in 1971.
• What does the HTTP at the start of a web address stand for?
• Select ALL of these web browsers that were first released during the 1990s.
• Which giant of the web launched in 1995 as an online bookstore?
• Put these internet milestones in order, oldest first.
• The world's first website was published at which address?
• What does the URL at the front of a web link stand for?
• The Mosaic browser, released in 1993, was developed at which institution?
• The world's first webcam was set up to watch a coffee pot at the University of Cambridge.
• Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn designed which protocol suite that still moves data across the internet?
• Select ALL of these that are protocols used to send or collect email.
• Select ALL of these sites that were founded before the year 2000.
• Did the Domain Name System exist before the World Wide Web was proposed?
• Wikipedia was launched in which year?
• Order these sites by when they launched, earliest first.
• What was Google's search engine originally called while it ran on Stanford servers?
• In which year did CERN put the World Wide Web software into the public domain, free for anyone to use?
• Who demonstrated the first computer mouse in 1968, at what became known as the Mother of All Demos?