Years quiz

1. Bell System engineers demonstrate the first transmission of pictures over telephone wires.

2. Electronic mail is introduced by Ray Tomlinson, a Cambridge, Mass., computer scientist. He uses the @ to distinguish between the sender's name and network name in the email address.

1985

1972

1955

1899

3. Presidential candidate Jimmy Carter and running mate Walter Mondale use email to plan campaign events.

4. Domain Name System (DNS) is established, with network addresses identified by extensions such as .com, .org, and .edu.

5. The first effort to index the Internet is created by Peter Deutsch at McGill University in Montreal, who devises Archie, an archive of FTP sites.

6. The White House launches its website, www.whitehouse.gov. Initial commerce sites are established and mass marketing campaigns are launched via email, introducing the term “spamming” to the Internet vocabulary.

7. Google opens its first office in California.

8. YouTube.com is launched.

9. Legal online music downloads triple to 6.7 million downloads per week. Colorado Rockies' computer system crashes when it receives 8.5 million hits within the first 90 minutes of World Series ticket sales.

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Years Quiz

Name year for the checkpoints in internet history.

10 questions total

1. Bell System engineers demonstrate the first transmission of pictures over telephone wires.

2. Electronic mail is introduced by Ray Tomlinson, a Cambridge, Mass., computer scientist. He uses the @ to distinguish between the sender's name and network name in the email address.

3. Presidential candidate Jimmy Carter and running mate Walter Mondale use email to plan campaign events.

4. Domain Name System (DNS) is established, with network addresses identified by extensions such as .com, .org, and .edu.

5. The first effort to index the Internet is created by Peter Deutsch at McGill University in Montreal, who devises Archie, an archive of FTP sites.

6. The White House launches its website, www.whitehouse.gov. Initial commerce sites are established and mass marketing campaigns are launched via email, introducing the term “spamming” to the Internet vocabulary.

7. Google opens its first office in California.

8. YouTube.com is launched.

9. Legal online music downloads triple to 6.7 million downloads per week. Colorado Rockies' computer system crashes when it receives 8.5 million hits within the first 90 minutes of World Series ticket sales.

10. MSN launches Bing

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