Quick Take
The Internet is a superhighway now, taking us to a truly amazing variety of locations. It started small, but has a fairly well documented life.
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In the beginning, there was no Internet. For Information, you read books – searching library shelves, often by walking down them, or looking in card catalogs. The Internet is ubiquitous in most of our lives now, but its history doesn’t go far back into the 20th century. Do you know how it started? Check this quiz of facts from Internet history, along with a nod to the Internet of today, and see how well you know landmarks on the information highway.
Internet History Quiz
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References
- WebCrawler History http://www.thinkpink.com/bp/WebCrawler/History.html
- Weaving the Web by Tim Berners-Lee
- image NSFNET T3 Backbone Map Fall 1992 source Merit Network - Wikipedia Commons
- Wired - The Mother of All Demos http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/12/dayintech_1209
- The INTERNET, ARPANet, and Consumer Online by Michael Banks http://www.allbusiness.com/media-telecommunications/internet-www/10555321-1.html
- Internet Statistics http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
