This is an open book, open web scavenger hunt based on the readings you have just finished and other materials in this unit. You may use any books and web resources you wish. You may take this test as many times as you wish. (24pts)
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#2. In the early 90s, the University of Minnesota created a system for browsing documents on the Internet that is widely considered the immediate precursor to the WWW. What was that system called?
#3. What was the name of the important Atlantic article in which Vannevar Bush theorized about the “Memex” system?
#4. The first protocol for sending data over the Internet was NCP (Network Computer Protocol). It was replaced by what popular protocol, still common today?
#5. What was the first commercial online internet access service?
#6. What agency created the first “net”? What was their acronym? (note: an acronym is an abbreviation using the first letters of words. IBM is an acronym for Industrial Business Machines)
#7. What was the name of the first graphical WWW browser?
#8. Tim Berners-Lee created the protocol that became the foundation of the current WWW. Where did he work at the time?
#9. When that first net was retired, it was split it into two pieces: one public/university and the other military. What were the two new nets called?
#10. Who was the first person to send packets (use) the first net? What year was it? What institution were they with?
#11. Why was the idea of the Memex system so important?
#12. What did Heraclitus say that is very relevant to our technological situation today?
