Internet Milestones

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Question 1

What was the very first message transmitted over the ARPANET between UCLA and Stanford in October 1969?

Question 2

Where was Tim Berners-Lee working when he invented the World Wide Web in 1989?

Question 3

On what date, known as 'Flag Day', did ARPANET officially transition all connected host computers to TCP/IP?

Question 4

What was the name of the first widely popular graphical web browser developed by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina in 1993?

Question 5

What computer company registered the world's very first commercial '.com' domain name in March 1985?

Question 6

Who is credited with creating the Domain Name System (DNS) in 1983 to replace cumbersome manual HOSTS.TXT file updates?

Question 7

What landmark US legislation passed in 1996 contained Section 230, granting internet platforms immunity from third-party publisher liability?

Question 8

What was the very first video uploaded to YouTube on April 23, 2005, by co-founder Jawed Karim?

Question 9

Which internet pioneer was known as the 'God of the Internet' for single-handedly administering IP address assignments and RFCs until 1998?

Question 10

What 1988 computer security disaster was the first self-replicating worm distributed across the ARPANET, infecting roughly 10% of connected machines?

What was the very first message transmitted over the ARPANET between UCLA and Stanford in October 1969?