History: Commercialization and Growth

TOTAL POINTS 9

1. What institution agreed to be responsible for web standards in 1994?

CERN
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
University of Michigan
Request-Response Congress (RRC)
HTML Standards Organization (HSO)
Stanford
# World-Wide-Web Consortium (W3C)

2. Between 1990 and 2006 the number of servers connected to the web grew from what
to what?

1 server to 120 thousand servers

# 1 server to 120 million servers
2 servers to 500 million servers
100 servers to 10 billion servers

3. What browser did Netscape ultimately turn into?

# Firefox
Internet Explorer
Chrome
Safari

4. How did the Mozilla foundation earn their money?

# They added a search bar to their browser, and Google paid for the traffic
directed to them.
Microsoft licensed their browser and bundled it into Windows-98
They charged end-users an upgrade fee to go from the free version of streaming
video to the pro version
They bundled a lite version of a word processor into the browser and charged for
the full version

5. What web technology does Brendan Eich include as part of creating the
capabilities we refer to as HTML5?

Visual Basic
# Javascript
ObjectiveC
PHP

6. Why did JavaScript never fail in the beginning, as most new programming
languages do?

# It was written to be malleable, allowing programmers to establish their own

patterns and best practices.
It was written by a team of 1000 computer scientists.
It was carefully crafted over the course of several years before being released.
They convened a conference with 100 computer scientists and had everyone vote on
what features to include

7. What was Mitchell Baker "fired" from Netscape for?

For giving trade secrets to Microsoft

# For repeatedly giving priority to the needs of the open source community over the
needs of the commercial version of Netscape.
For making the Netscape browser display a disrespectful pop-up message whenever it
was viewing www.aol.com
Because she added several badly-designed tags (like blink) to HTML without approval

8. What was Tim Berners Lee's goal with establishing web standards?

To make sure that all TCP/IP implementations used an appropriate retransmit timeout
To make sure the CERN browser was the only browser in the marketplace
# To make sure that a single company could not determine the technical direction of
the web
To make sure that all images popped up in a new window across all browsers

9. Why did Jeff Bezos choose to start Amazon.com by selling books?

Books were the easiest item to track because of their ISBN catalogue numbers.
#Books are the category of items that have the most different products, making it
impossible to have a brick and mortar store with the same level of inventory.
Because the ISBN number allowed each book to be broken into packets and routed
across the network for remote printing
Because Apple's iTunes store had already cornered the market for music tracks
Books were the easiest category of items to ship.