History+of+the+Internet+Quiz

Questions (Due Aug. 22) 1. Why was Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) formed in 1957? 2. Why did the government want a decentralized network in 1962? 3. How many Internet hosts were there in 1968? 4. Who created the first email program in 1972? 5. What does //TCP/IP// stand for? 6. In what year was the term //Internet// coined? 7. What does //Ethernet// allow to happen? 8. What is USENET? 9. Who created its own network in 1981 which was not connected to ARPANET? 10. What happens when a packet is directed to a domain name (what does the server database do)? 11. What was the purpose of creating domain names? 12. What was the engineers' response when traffic accelerated on the Internet immediately after an upgrade in 1988? 13. How many more hosts were there in 1990, compared to 1988? 14. Why did Tim Berners-Lee implement a hypertext system in 1990? 15. In what year did CERN release the World Wide Web? 16. In what year was the first graphical user interface (browser) created for the World Wide Web? 17. Who offered pizza ordering on their Web page, and who was the first virtual bank, in 1994? 18. How much did it cost to register a domain name per year in 1995? 19. How many hosts were there in 1995? 20. Who would you conclude invented the Internet?