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TLA's 2
200
CDA
What is the Communications Decency Act?
400
PPP
What is point-to-point protocol?
600
TBL
Who is Tim Berners-Lee?
800
TCP
What is transmission control protocol?
1000
Sun (as in Sun Microsystems)
What is Stanford University Network?
Yes, There Are Other Browsers
200
Developed by a band of plucky Norwegians, this is "The Browser That Was Made For You!"
What is Opera?
400
The World Wide Web Consortium's testbed browser.
What is Amaya?
600
Apple's ill-fated attempt to enter the browser market.
What is CyberDog?
800
IBM's ill-fated attempt to enter the browser market.
What is WebExplorer?
1000
Oracle's ill-fated attempt to enter the browser market.
What is PowerBrowser? [Can't find it]
Web History
200
The computer for which the first Web browser was written.
What is the NeXT?
400
The global event that occurred on February 8, 1996.
What is 24 Hours in Cyberspace?
(Points would have been given if you said "What is the day Web pages went black to protest the CDA?")
600
This site from O'Reilly may have been the first Web portal.
What is GNN? [Now dead]
800
Where the first US Web Server was located.
What is the Stanford Linear Accelerator
Laboratory?
1000
He developed the first WWW software with Tim Berners-Lee.
Who is Robert
Cailliau?
Before the Web
200
The document-linking technology proposed by Vannevar Bush in his landmark essay, "As We May Think"
What is Memex?
400
This hypertext system was referred to in Wired magazine as "the longest-running vaporware story in the history
of the computer industry."
What is Xanadu?
600
Invented by Charles Goldfarb, it separates content structure from presentation.
What is SGML?
800
The author of HyperCard, the program the popularized hypertext.
Who is Bill Atkinson?
1000
Designed by computer demigod Douglas Engelbart, the first hypertext system.
What is NLS (oN Line System)?
Follow the Money
200:
Tthis venture capital firm is known for its keiretsu, featuring such successful firms as Compaq, Intuit, Sun and
Netscape
Who is Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers
400:
Tthis noted venture capitalist used to date Bill Gates.
Who is Ann Winblad?
600:
This unusual investment bank was involved in a rather tacky spam marketing scheme with one of its investors, Wired
Digital.
Who is Wit Capital?
800:
The formerly "revolutionary" company that took out full page ads in the Wall Street Journal offering
to buy websites.
Who is Zap?
1000:
This venture capital firm's investment portfolio includes the following firms: AvantGo, Vicinity, When.com and
Career Builder.
Who is 21st Century Internet Venture Partners?
Onto Final Webpardy! |
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