History of the Internet Worksheet

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Directions: You have just read the article, "History of the Internet". To complete this worksheet, read each question. Then, make your choice by clicking in the box on the right you think is the correct answer. If you need to go back to find an answer, just click on the web page that is on your taskbar.

1. What year did the Internet begin?
    A. 1955.
    B. 1956.
    C. 1957.
    D. 1958.

2. What satellite was launched by the Soviet Union?
    A. Sputnik.
    B. Spitnik.
    C. Spitnuk.
    D. Spotnik.

3. What did President Eisenhower create to fund and coordinate defense-related scientific research?
    A. Allowance Research Projects Agency (ARPA).
    B. Advanced Rights Projects Agency (ARPA).
    C. Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA).
    D. Advanced Research Proprietary Agency (ARPA).

4. Supercomputers at four sites--the University of California at Los Angeles, the Stanford Research Institute, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the University of Utah in Salt Lake City--were linked by "?" connections and the ARPANET was born. The "?" stands for...
    A. Television.
    B. Telephone.
    C. Monitor.
    D. Computer.

5. The ARPANET was a product of what War?
    A. World War II.
    B. Vietnam.
    C. Korean.
    D. Cold.

6. Designers linked every computer to every other computer in the system in a modified "?" network?
    A. peer-to-peer.
    B. client-server.
    C. wide-area.
    D. local area.

7. NSF stands for...
    A. National Sound Foundation.
    B. Nuclear Science Foundation.
    C. National Science Foundation.
    D. National Science Federation.

8. NSFnet provided a high-speed communications backbone for the emerging "?"
    A. Email.
    B. Instant Messaging.
    C. World Wide Web.
    D. Internet.

9. Who created the World Wide Web?
    A. Jim Berners-Lee.
    B. Tim Burners-Lee.
    C. Tim Berners-Lee.
    D. Jim Berners-Lead.

10. Tim Berners-Lee created URLS (Uniform Resource Locators), HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol), and "?"?
    A. HTML (HyperText Markdown Language).
    B. HTML (HyperTest Markup Language).
    C. HTML (HipperText Markup Language).
    D. HTML (HyperText Markup Language).

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