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1. In 1986, Usenet newsgroups were an early format of discussion groups, and they were reorganized into "hierarchies" such as "comp", which were newsgroups related to computers. Which two were NOT among the major 7 Usenet groups?

From Quiz History of the Early Internet Years (1986-1993)

Answer: "met" and "dr"

The concept of the worldwide discussion group idea was initiated in 1979, and established in 1980. The renaming/reorganizing of these usenet groups in the mid 80s was to try and make the system more orderly and efficient, but it was met with some heated debates between those who were in favor of the hierarchy structuring and those who weren't. "soc." were discussions of a social nature, and "talk." were discussion groups that revolved around topics that usually generated very engaged and opinionated issues such as talk.religion, talk.politics, etc. "rec." groups stood for recreation, and the groups involved arts and entertainment such as rec.games, rec.music, rec.arts.movies, etc. and "sci." groups were science-related, i.e sci.bio, sci.psychology, sci.astro, sci.research, etc. "news." groups did just that - discuss news. And "misc." was a catch-all covering miscellaneous topics like misc.travel, misc.education, misc.forsale, misc.kids, etc. In 1987, John Gilmore and Brian Reid created the alt. hierarchy the largest of all usenet groups, generally having many more specific topics. In 1995, the big 7 became the big 8, adding a "humanities." hierarchy focused on the fine arts: humanities.history, humanities.classics, humanities.visual-arts, etc.

From Quiz History of the Early Internet Years (1971-1989)

Answer: Ray Tomlinson

Researcher Ray Tomlinson was an American computer programmer for BBN Technologies who, in 1971, was working on ARPANET, the precursor to the modern internet. He used a program called SNDMSG to send a message to himself on a different computer. Tomlinson has said that the message was "completely forgettable, probably 'QWERTYUIOP' or 'Testing 1-2-3."

From Quiz Help!

Answer: Word and slang meanings

The Urban Dictionary was founded in 1999. Initially it included only slang words and phrases that weren't found elsewhere, but it quickly embraced other word definitions to make it a composite of both standard and non-standard dictionaries. To keep it up to date, the online dictionary accepts (vetted) submissions from its users.

From Quiz Are You Down With Downloads?

Answer: Facebook

Facebook has become a worldwide internet phenomenon that allows users to text, message, post, and share all sorts of things to friends and family. Facebook is a free site and users must be 13 years of age to open an account.

From Quiz Internet for Infants or Grandmas!

Answer: World Wide Web

The World Wide Web was the brain child of British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee and Belgian scientist Robert Cailliau. Proposed and released to the world in 1990, the World Wide Web has revolutionized information sharing and ushered in a remarkable technological age. WWW is a system where hypertext documents can be accessed through an internet web browser.

From Quiz Chirping About Twitter

Answer: Jack

According to a member of his team, while sitting on a slide in South Park, San Francisco, Jack Dorsey came up with the idea of a short message service during a daylong brainstorming session. Jack and the team would eventually call this SMS Twttr. Dorsey grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. When he was fourteen he developed a keen interest in how information was disbursed to public transportation and emergency vehicles.

From Quiz Fix You

Answer: Shorten your Tweet to 280 characters in length

The catch when using this rapid-fire social networking site is that all 'Tweets' had to be (at the maximum) 280 characters in length, so to fix this, you'd need to be a bit more concise. This would ensure that your Tweets were both straight-to-the-point and quick to make them that way. All posts, all replies, and all reposts must follow this guideline in order to be posted. To take a fairly long link and place it into your Tweet, there are a number of handy solutions out there including URL shorteners to make any lengthy link a short forwarding URL. Many celebrities have also taken to the Twitterverse, and users can follow friends, famous faces, and family as well as update on the fly with mobile devices if they aren't near a computer. Twitter is perhaps one of the fastest and foremost methods of what's deemed social grooming. Because of the vast number of Twitter users and the speed at which items can be posted, it's no surprise that a large percentage of Tweets are pointless babble (according to research done by Pear Analytics in 2009).

From Quiz Web Browsers - An Introduction

Answer: WorldWideWeb

Tim Berners-Lee holds the distinction of creating and developing the World Wide Web. He also created the first WWW client, called WorldWideWeb. It was developed for the NeXT operating system, which was based on a Motorola chip. It provided a strong foundation for the development of future web browsers.

From Quiz Well Known Port Numbers

Answer: 80

A port is a virtual data connection used by software components to interact. As long as they are inter-connected through a network (such as the Internet), the components in question may reside on different machines which run on different operating systems. The concept of client-server is an essential part of this networking model (commonly known as TCP/IP). A particular server or service (such as HTTP) opens a Well Known port for incoming traffic from clients that wish to interact with it (TCP port 80). "Surfing to FunTrivia" means that the web client (your browser) is establishing connection with the FunTrivia web server on this port. When approaching http://www.funtrivia.com, your client sends the request to the default well known HTTP port. If a web server is listening on a non-default port (i.e. not Well Known), you have to explicitly specify it - e.g. http://www.someurl.com:8182 (for port 8182). This holds true for other protocols (or servers) which use a non-default port.

From Quiz The Joy of HTML

Answer: Hyper Text Markup Language

HTML was written by Tim Berners-Lee in 1992. Berners-Lee also invented the Web.

From Quiz XML, The Way Of The Future

Answer: eXtensible Markup Language

XML is very useful for sending and receiving data across the Internet. It is a standard for data structure that is platform independent.

From Quiz HTML Tags

Answer: "A"

"A" stands for anchor. It can also be used to name a vertical position on a page and link to it from another part of the page e.g. with a "back to top" link.

From Quiz History of the Early Internet Years (1986-1993)

Answer: 2400-baud modem Virus

The FireWall Virus and The Da Vinci Virus were both fictitious viruses from works of fiction, in this case from the anime and manga series "Ghost in the Shell," and the movie "Johnny Mnemonic" respectively. It was the 2400-baud modem virus hoax in 1988 that spread throughout the minds of worrywarts on the internet, and never infected a single computer, despite the fear that it was supposed to delete your data and corrupt your hard drive. Not everyone was fooled. Computer scientist Robert Tappan Morris Sr., joked with this warning, "Don't read messages. Not even this one." Mr. Morris however, did indeed spread a real virus in 1988 called the Internet Worm which infect 10% of the 60,000 computer hosts on the internet at the time.

From Quiz History of the Early Internet Years (1971-1989)

Answer: Playboy playmate

Lena Sjööblom, born March 31, 1951, was Playboy's November 1972 Playmate of the month, and one particular photo of her from that photo spread was cropped to reveal just her head and shoulders, and that image became ubiquitously used by tech workers experimenting on ways to digitally compression image files. The process became essential for finding an efficient way to send graphics over the Internet. The Swedish model encouraged a respelling of her name from Lena to Lenna so that it would be pronounced correctly with the short "e" which she preferred over the long "e" sound in her name.

From Quiz Help!

Answer: snopes.com

Snopes.com started small and grew with the volume of internet urban legends. Since its beginnings, it has added other content including details about scams and other e-mails to look out for, making it a valuable site if you receive a suspicious e-mail. Snopes was named after characters (of questionable nature) in a novel by William Faulkner.

From Quiz Are You Down With Downloads?

Answer: Peer to Peer

P2P file sharing has become a popular way to share music, videos, and movies over the internet. Although copyright issues and piracy have hindered legitimate sharing, there are sites out there who have filters to prevent this.

From Quiz Internet for Infants or Grandmas!

Answer: Local Area Network

A Local Area Network (LAN) is a computer network set up to connect computer terminals in a limited geographical area. These proximal networks have the advantage of higher data-transfer rates and the lack of a need for leased telecommunication lines. Early Local Area Networks were provided by coaxial cable. Recently, cable has been replaced by WiFi capabilities that do not require cables to access the Internet.

From Quiz Chirping About Twitter

Answer: Biz Stone

Stone and Dorsey's creation went through a series of code names to fit the SMS product codes of five characters. Some of the names they came up with were 10958, 40404, and the Flickr-inspired Twttr. Available to only a few insiders and family at first, Twttr was tested on March 21, 2006.

From Quiz The Joy of HTML

Answer: IMG

The IMG tag is one of the few HTML tags that stands alone, as it requires no closing tag with it.

From Quiz Let Me Tell You About On-Line Relationships

Answer: Marital Status

If you insist on giving Rob anything, only give him your marital status. Never under any circumstances, give out your social security number. Many companies ask to verify your information now with DOB and/or your mother's maiden name. So please avoid giving this information out.

From Quiz XML, The Way Of The Future

Answer: Data island

Data Islands are a good way of making small amount of data available to the client browser. They can be bound to other HTML elements such as TABLE.

From Quiz HTML Tags

Answer: Used to create a client-side image map

There are also server-side image maps.

From Quiz Popular Websites

Answer: www.titanicmovie.com

At the time the movie was in theatres, there was a front page at www.titanic.com that pointed to the movie site because he had had so many emails saying 'Where's the movie?'

From Quiz History of the Early Internet Years (1986-1993)

Answer: Internet Relay Chat

The Internet Relay Chat system utilized specific "channels", each one designated with a # prefix, and each one assigned a specific topic. This instant messaging service provided group discussions as well as private messaging and even file sharing. IRC usage has declined since 2003, losing 60% of its users between then and 2012. Other social media platforms cut into IRC's popularity.

From Quiz History of the Early Internet Years (1971-1989)

Answer: Vint Cerf

Vint Cerf used the term "Internet" in a research paper in which he outlined the use of Transmission Control Protocol, the common computer language that all computers on the Net would eventually come to utilize. Robert Kahn was a key co-worker of Mr. Cerf in their work on enabling inter-computer communication and is also credited with being a "Father of the Internet". Those other famous Cerfs all passed away before the Internet was born.

From Quiz Are You Down With Downloads?

Answer: Pandora

Pandora was created by Will Glaser, Jon Kraft, and Tim Westergren. Savage Beast Technologies launched Pandora Online Radio July 21, 2005.

From Quiz Internet for Infants or Grandmas!

Answer: A device that joins multiple wired or wireless networks together

For surfing the internet, a router is a device that allows packets of information to be transfered to different points. The router generally is connected to at least two networks and is often included as part of a network switch. Businesses and home computers, using high-speed Internet connections, might use a router as a hardware firewall. A router often provides better protection against hacking compared to a software firewall. This is because no IP (Internet Protocol) address is directly exposed to the Internet.

From Quiz The Joy of HTML

Answer: ANCHOR

This is the tag that really makes the Internet what it is. The A tag tells the computer to link to another file, such as another website. It creates a web of interlinked documents! Such a little tag, but incredibly powerful!

From Quiz Webscripts

Answer: C# (see sharp)

C# is meant to be portable across all kinds of systems, including embedded systems, and developing C# code should be easier and safer than developing C++ code. In many respects, C# resembles Java more than C or C++.

From Quiz History of the Early Internet Years (1986-1993)

Answer: Chain letter

Dave Rhodes was the false name signed to the infamous "Turn $5 into $50,000" email chain letter. Rhodes was rumored to be a student at Columbia Union College, in Maryland, who used the college's internet account to send his scam email in 1988. Also known as the "Make Money Fast!" email scam letter, it is estimated that "Rhodes" made $400,000 perpetrating his ruse.

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