Test Your IQ On World Wide Web
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This is a quiz about World Wide Web. Will you be able to handle it?
- 1.What does "YMMV" stands for in IM'ing?
- A.
You Make Me Vomit
- B.
Your Mileage May Vary
- C.
Young Men Make VIP
- D.
Your Mom May Vacate
- 2.What is the international consortium dedicated to the creation of Web standards called?
- A.
HP
- B.
IBM
- C.
NIST
- D.
W3C
- 3.Who is credited with creating the World Wide Web?
- A.
Vincent Cerf
- B.
Tim Berners-Lee
- C.
James Bronson
- D.
Thomas Cern
- 4.What the was the first World Wide Web HTML page?
- A.
TheProject.html
- B.
Default.html
- C.
Home.html
- D.
Index.html
- 5.What was the name of the first GUI Web browser?
- A.
Midas
- B.
Viola
- C.
WorldWideWeb
- D.
Mosaic
- 6.What is the name of Microsoft's Web Server offering?
- A.
Apache
- B.
HTTP Express
- C.
Microsoft Web Server
- D.
Internet Information Services
- 7.What was the most visited Web site in 2007, according to Alexa?
- A.
Wikipedia.com
- B.
MySpace.com
- C.
Google.com
- D.
Yahoo.com
- 8.What popular social networking site was sold to News Corp. for $580 million in 2005?
- A.
Facebook.com
- B.
Dating.com
- C.
Myspace.com
- D.
Google.com
- 9.What does the acronym "URL" stand for?
- A.
United Reform League
- B.
Uniform Resource Locator
- C.
Universal Resource Location
- D.
Uniform Resource Landing
- 10.In a Web address, what implies that a Web page is encrypted?
- A.
Https
- B.
Secure
- C.
://
- D.
Enc
- 11.What does "www" in the URL http://www.company.com/index.html mean?
- A.
World Wide Web
- B.
Host Name
- C.
Address
- D.
Domain Name
- 12.In the URL "http://www.company.com/index.html", which of these does "index.html" represent?
- A.
Web Page
- B.
Host
- C.
Protocol
- D.
Domain
- 13.Which information browsing system is considered the precursor to the modern day Web?
- A.
FTP
- B.
POP3
- C.
Gopher
- D.
Mosaic
- 14.What company created the first commercial Web site, called the Global Network Navigator?
- A.
Sun Microsystems
- B.
Xerox
- C.
IBM
- D.
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
- 15.What did Mosaic Communications Corporation change its name to in 1994?
- A.
Microsoft
- B.
Mozilla Foundation
- C.
Oracle
- D.
Netscape Communications Corporation
- 16.What site is the "Free People Network"?
- A.
Livejournal.com
- B.
Skyrock.com
- C.
Imdb.com
- D.
Yahoo.com
- 17.The popular photo-sharing site Flikr was acquired by what company in March 2005?
- A.
Microsoft
- B.
Kodak
- C.
Google
- D.
Yahoo!
- 18.What email security vendor did Google acquire in 2007?
- A.
Tumbleweed
- B.
Symantec
- C.
Postini
- D.
St. Bernard
- 19.What does "MSN" stand for in the URL http://www.msn.com?
- A.
Microsoft Safe Network
- B.
Microsoft Network
- C.
Microsoft Savvy Network
- D.
Microsoft Short Network
- 20.Who is allowed to edit pages at Wikipedia.org?
- A.
Anyone
- B.
Site Administrators
- C.
Registered Users
- D.
All Wikipedia Employees
- 21.Who is the president of the popular internet social networking website "MySpace"?
- A.
A Boy Named Goo
- B.
A Girl Named Barb
- C.
A Guy Named Tom
- D.
A Guy Named Phil
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