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This U.S. Department of Defense project, launched in 1969, is considered the direct predecessor to the modern internet.
- ARPANET
- MILNET
- NSFNET
- BITNET
This scientist at CERN invented the World Wide Web in 1989 while working on a system to share documents among researchers.
- Vint Cerf
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Marc Andreessen
- Robert Cailliau
This is the name of the first message ever sent over ARPANET on October 29, 1969, though it crashed after just two letters.
- HELLO
- PING
- LOGIN
- CONNECT
This company launched the first widely successful commercial web browser called Navigator in 1994.
- Netscape
- Microsoft
- Apple
- IBM
This "electronic mail" pioneer sent the first network email in 1971 and chose the @ symbol to separate usernames from computer names.
- Vint Cerf
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Steve Jobs
- Ray Tomlinson
This acronym describes the set of communication protocols that form the foundation of data transmission across the internet.
- HTTP
- HTML
- TCP/IP
- WWW
This online encyclopedia, launched in 2001, allows anyone to edit its articles and has become one of the most visited websites.
- Britannica Online
- Wikipedia
- Encarta
- About.com
This video-sharing platform, acquired by Google for $1.65 billion in 2006, was founded by three former PayPal employees.
- Vimeo
- Dailymotion
- Metacafe
- YouTube
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