Names: _____________________________________________________________ Class: ___________

Use this quiz to check your understanding of the History of the Internet – circle your answer

1. When was the Internet born?
The 1960s
The 1970s
The 1980s
The 1990s

2. Who first started working for an Internet system?
The physicists at SLAC
The physicists at CERN
The U.S. government
The Universities

3. What was the first network called?
NETWORK
ARPANET
CERN
SLAC

4. For what purpose did the U.S. government begin research on a computer network?
Share jokes
Chat with friends on other bases
Send e-mail to Russia
Communication in case of war

5. Where did the first computer "chat" communication take place?

UCLA and SLAC
UCLA and SRI
SLAC and England
Switzerland and England

6. When was the World Wide Web invented (NOT the internet)?

The 1970s
The 1980s
The 1990s
The 2000s

7. What makes the WWW different than the Internet?

It is free.
Hypertext where one click/double click brings a document to your computer.
Only people in India use the Internet.
The first server was in California.

8. Why is Domain Name system important? .
It is cool!
It puts you in charge
It helps to feed hungry children

It helps you remember and know websites.

9. What are names of some of the original web browsers?

Archie
Jughead and Veronica
Gopher
All of the above

10. Who began running the Internet in the 1990s?
Government
Business
People
Children