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The Internet became what it is today, because of the invention of the World Wide Web that was released to the public in August 1991. Here’s a quiz on some milestones in the Internet’s journey

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1 / 5 | Which English computer scientist is credited with the invention of the World Wide Web? Where was he working when he did this?

Answer :  Tim Berners-Lee. He was working with CERN, Switzerland.

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2 / 5 | While Google today dominates the search engine market, this tool, first launched in September 1990 and used to index FTP (File Transfer Protocol) archives is considered the first Internet search engine. What was it called?

Answer : Archie

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3 / 5 | The digital intelligence provider Similarweb rates this website as the eighth most visited in the world. While it was launched in 2001, the idea of an online version of the service that this website provides, is considered to have been made as early as in 1986 by the internet pioneer Rick Gates. Name this website.

Answer : Wikipedia

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4 / 5 | What is the claim to fame of the device called TAT-8, which was built in 1988 by a consortium of companies that included AT&T Corp., France Telecom and British Telecom?

Answer : The first underwater fiber optic cable

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5 / 5 | Much before Web 2.0 evolved and social networking began, many users, as early as 1980, who had email utilised this “distributed discussion system” on “newsgroups” as threaded discussions. What is this system, which is still in place, called?

Answer : Usenet

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