World Wide Web: CC CS #30

WORLD WIDE WEB

CC CS #30

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​Crash Course computer Science #30 - The World Wide Web

Multiple Choice

_ is the fundamental building block of the World Wide Web.

• A single page

• A web site

• Hypertext

• A binary digit

Multiple Choice

Who first conceptualized the idea of hyperlinks calling it "associative indexing"?

• Charles Babbage

• Sir Tim Berners-Lee

• Grace Hopper

• Vannevar Bush

Multiple Choice

What is a hyper link?

• a link on a web page that takes you to another web page

• a link on a web page that brings you text from another web page

• a language created for "marking up" text

• a very fast connection

Multiple Choice

What is a URL?

• Unicode Random Letters: auto completes web addresses

• Unicorn Rescue & Liberation: a cryptozoological resource

• Uniform Resource Locator: the web address

• Unique Radio Label: the letters before a radio station name

Multiple Choice

For what purpose is Hypertext Transfer Protocol used?

• used by developers to create web pages

• used by browsers to ask servers for hypertext pages

• used by the DNS to look up the URL

• used by servers to store web pages for browsers

Multiple Choice

In what year was the first version of Hypertext Markup Language developed?

• 1990

• 1991

• 1994

• 1999

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was NOT one of the 18 original HTML commands?

• heading

• hyperlink

• image

• ordered list

Multiple Choice

The first web browser and web server was written over the course of two months at CERN, Switzerland by _ in _ .

• Vannevar Bush, 1945

• Grace Hopper, 1954

• Sir Tim Berners-Lee, 1991

• Bill Gates, 1994

Multiple Choice

Jerry and Dave's, the most famous of the web directories that preceded modern search engines, evolved into _ ?

• Google

• Alta Vista

• Yahoo

• JumpStation

Multiple Choice

What innovation made Google so revolutionary?

• looking at "backlinks" to prioritize search results

• using a "web crawler" to add new sites to its index

• using an index to store new sites found by its "web crawler"

• using a search algorithm to consult the index of sites

Multiple Choice

What is the principle of Net Neutrality?

• that content requested by more people should get a "fast lane"

• that all packets on the internet should be treated equally

• that the market should decide the speed and priority of connections

• that each should get according to his need from each according to his ability