Computers Questions & Answers

What was the first Web site on the World Wide Web? Answer: The very first Web site was nxoc01.cern.ch and the very first Web page was: http://nxoc01.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html Timothy John Berners-Lee, the "inventor" of the World Wide Web, worked for CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) and first put the Web site online on August 6, 1991. It provided an explanation about what the World Wide Web was, how one could own a browser, and how to set up a Web server.   How much do you know about computers/computing? Test yourself. 1. What does IBM stand for? 2. Name the device that is the "brain" of a computer system: CD-ROM, CPU, WWW, or DNA? 3. How many bits is a byte (a unit of storage measurement in computers)? 4. Who invented the computer mouse? 5. What does HTML stand for? 6. What do you call a computer virus that spreads itself automatically through e-mail: a snake, an eel, a worm, or a leech? 7. What is the name of the 1997 breakthrough album by the alternative rock band Radiohead? 8. In "2001: A Space Odyssey" (both the novel written by Arthur C. Clarke and the film directed by Stanley Kubrick), what was the name of the computer aboard the spaceship? [Bonus question: what was the computer originally to be called?] 9. What is the best-selling apple in the northeastern United States and in Canada? 10. What does "Spam" stand for? View the answers Back