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  Acronyms 2
200
FUD

400
IETF

600
GNU

800
RDF

1000
ASCII

Search Engines
200
The technology behind Altavista's question-processing interface

400
Hotbot returns results from these two sources

600
The search engine that offers "I'm feeling lucky"?

800
The portal whose search engine was originally named Architext.

1000
The wily search engine technology being developed by IBM.

Across the Pond
200
France's woefully obsolete nationwide computer network

400
German Mac-only Web browser

600
The country where the Web was born

800
The ISP that set the UK internet market on its head by offering free access

1000
The country where the most notorious anonymous remailier once lived
(bonus:
The remailer's URL?)

Slashdot
200
The man responsible for its creation
(bonus:
His Slashdot handle.)

400
What unregistered users are labelled as

600
Freed from the bounds of pesky editors, he now rants about geek culture on /.

800
Slashdot's attempt to catalog all human knowledge

1000
The company that has just acquired Slashdot.

Web Tech
200
Cross-platform open source hypertext preprocessor that's an alternative to ASP.

400
Dave Winer's content management system

600
The math behind the 216 "Web-safe" palette

800
W3C Specification for authoring multimedia presentations

1000
A programming API allowing Web developers to access and manipulate elements of a Web page

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