CIS160/BOST160 Homework Questions

Due: Wednesday 1/23/01 (Grace period until Friday)

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H8: Questions 31 to 35

History of the Internet

With these questions, you are demonstrating your ability to answer questions about the history of the Internet and the Internet in general.

31. What year was the definition of an Internet created? What is the definition of an Internet? What is the URL where you found this answer?

32. What year did the WWW become a part of the Internet? Please give me the URL of the web page where you found that answer.

33. What year was the first graphical web browser developed? What was the name of that first graphical web browser?

34. What year did the WWW become the most popular application of the Internet (based on traffic)?

35. What is FTP? How is it still used today? What is the URL where you found the definition for FTP?