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What does TELNET stand for and what year?

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TELetype NETwork, 1969

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When was Unix V4 and what programming language was it written? And what function did it introduce?

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1973, written in C and it introduced Pipes

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Who introduced the term packet and what year

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Donald Davies (NPL) in 1965-1966

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When was NSFNET upgraded and to what?

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1988, Upgraded to T1

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Who is the inventor of ARPANET email

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Ray Tomlinson, inventor of the @ sign in email

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When was IRC created and by who?

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1988, Jarkko Oikarinen

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What happened in 1984

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Apple started commercial against IBM

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What are VDUs and what year was the development and what year common?

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Video Display Unit terminals. Development 1960s more common 1970s.

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When did SURFnet start?

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1988

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What were the first available protocols?

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TELNET, FTP (File Transfer Protocol)

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When was Npaster and what technology?

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1999, File sharing and P2P technology

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What is VAX and when did Unix use it?

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Virtual Address Extension, 1979.

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“We will never do this again? Who and what?

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Jon Postel (UCLA), Great switch: NCP to TCP/IP

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When was System V, what did it lead to/starting point?

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1983, Leads to SVR4. Starting point for the SUS (Single Unix Specification)

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What is an IMP?

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Interface Message Processor

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Who invented message blocks and what uni

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Paul Baran UCLA

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When was NREN and what did stand for?

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1988, National Research and Education Network. Operated networks in many countries

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What is RFC #675 and when

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Specification of Internet Transmission Control Program in 1974. Was later split into transport layer protocol.

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Between who was first telnet connection?

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UCLA (Kleinrock) > SRI (Engelbart)

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When was Unix V7 and what is UUCP/by who?

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1979, set of UNIX programs for copying files between different UNIX systems. By Mike Lesk (Bell Labs)

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When was 4.3BSD and what did it include?

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1986, DNS implementation. Widely deployed.

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RFC of the net on Unix, year and inventor?

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RFC #681, 1975, Steve Holmgren

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When did NSFNET upgrade to T3 and speed?

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1990 45Mbps

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When was the great renaming (Usenet newsgroups)?

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1987

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What did Eric Allman invent
Message/Mail Transfer Agent (MTA).
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When was 3BSD invented and what did it implement
1979, implements virtual memory
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When was Gopher?
1991
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When was Unix 4.3-Reno
1990
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When was Unix V1 and on what was it ran?
1971, PDP-7 and PDP-9. Written in Assembly (chmod, chown, chdir)
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When was death of the net and why?
1995, Commercialisation, lack of security/privacy.
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When was final BSD release and what?
1995, 4.4BSD-Lite Release 2
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Who invented ADM-3A, when and what specs?
Lear Siegler, introduced in 1976. Still TTL Logic but using random access memory.
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When was the first TELNET connection
1969
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Creation of DARPA and meaning of DARPA
1958, Defense ARPA
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Father of RFCs and what is #1 RFC?
Steve Crocker on "Host Software"
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When was 4.4BSD and Mosaic launched?
1993
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What RFC's were SMTP?
RFC 821, RFC 2821, RFC 5321
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When was 386BSD and origins of what?
1994, Origin of FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD
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When and what was the great controversy
1977, TCP / IP versus OSI model (Theory vs Practice)
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Who is Bill Joy
Creator of the vi editor. Co founder of SUN
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Who is Wesley Clark (MIT)
Suggested the use of minicomputers for network packet switches
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What does TCP and IP stand for? And when
Tranmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol - 1974
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Difference Internet and internet
internet = any network of networks. Internet is the global TCP/IP-based network
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When Internet of Things
2008
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Who invented C, when and what is it?
Dennis Ritchie, 1969, C is developed from B (just next alphabetic letter)
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When was more support for collaboration and ARPANET mailing lists
1976
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In what Unix version were C compiler and tools introduced?
Version 2.
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What happened in 1975
Unix on The Net
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Important features of PDP-7
Interactive access (terminals) and Time-sharing (multitasking or multiprogramming)
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When was Facebook and Twitter?
Facebook: 2004. Twitter: 2006
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When was DEC's VT52 introduced and did it have a CPU
1975, it had no CPU only logic gates
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When was the great switch? From what to what. And address space growth
1983, NCP > TCP/IP. 2^8 to 2^32
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Who connected first IMP as an ARPANET node and what year?
Leonard Kleinrock (UCLA) in 1969
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Extensive use of virtualisation?
Grid: 2004. Cloud 2007.
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When/what was modern era?
1995-2021. Open source movement, immense security problems/privacy issues. Cloud big data.
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What is the ARPANET based on?
IMPs and NCP (Network Control Program)
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HoneyDanBer, what and by who?
Improvement of UUCP. Peter Honeyman, David A. Nowitz and Brian E. Redman
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Bits of VAX and successor to what?
32-bit successor to PDP-11's 16-bit
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Who invented B, when and what is it?
Ken Thompson, 1969, Simpler version of BCPL (Basic Combined Programming Language)
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What version of Unix in 1988 and to what did it lead?
4.3-Tahoe. Lead to Netowrking Release 1 (Net/1) in 1989. First release completely free of AT&T license
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When was PDP-7 and by what two was it influenced?
1964 CTSS (Compatible Time-Sharing System) and followup Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service)
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When was Usenet/Netnews?
1979, this was for the news
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Who and what is BBN
Company (Bolt, Beranek and Newman) that got development contract to build IMP for ARPANET in 1969
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When was WWW invented and introduced?
1990-1992
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What is the famous model of teletype corporation and in what year?
Model 33 in 1963. Functions were ASCII with a parity bit and optional tape punch and reader.
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When did ISOC start?
1991, Internet SOCiety
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What year were there plans for an ARPANET. And what type of network?
1966, first wide-area packet switching network
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When was Unix V6
1975
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When was linux 1.0 and origins?
1994, Origin of Red Hat, (open)SUSE, Debian, Ubuntu
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Bitcoin?
2009
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Who was the four node ARPANET between?
UCLA, (California, LA) SRI (Stanford Research Institute), UCSB (California, Santa Barbara), UofU (Utah, Salt lake City)
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What is Teletype also called
Teleprinter, teletypewriter, TTY
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Replacement of C news and who?
InterNetNews (INN). RIch Salz. 1991
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When was TCP/IP Specified and by who?
1974 by Vinton Cerf (Stanford) and Bob Kahn (DARPA). Intended replacement for NCP
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What did DNS replace and what RFC's
Replaced hosts.txt file. RFC 1034 and 1035
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When Big Data and data science?
2012
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When was 4.2BSD and what did it include?
1983, Includes TCP/IP and r-progs (s-progs nowadays)
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When was SMTP introduced?
1982
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When/what was XMPP
1999, Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol. Used by Google: Talk and Facebook: Chat
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When were MX records introduced into DNS
1986, Mail eXchanger record, used for routing email
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What was DEC's VT100, when and what functionality
Video Display Unit terminal, in 1978. Uses CPU (Intel 8080) and implemented ANSI escape codes
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When was NET /2 released?
1991
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What lead to shutdown of ARPANET and what year?
NSFNET, lead to shutdown in 1989
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RFC of NNTP, authors?
RFC #977 (obsoleted by #3977). Brian Kantor, Phil Lapsley. Promoted Netnews to a real Internet application
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Who studied message switching and what year?
Leonard Kleinrock, 1963
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When were the Unix wars?
1983, BSD versus System V
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Who is the father of ARPANET
Larry Roberts (MIT/ARPA)
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When did blogging start?
1999
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When was dot-com bubble?
2000-2002
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B News to C News authors and year?
Geoff Collyer. Henry Spencer. 1987. Used NNTP via nntpd
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When was NNTP specified and definition and port?
1986, Network News Transfer Protocol. Port 119
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When did graphical web browsing take off?
1995
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When was DNS specified and by who + RFC?
1984, RFC #882. Paul Mockapetris (ISI/USC)
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Symbols from Universities for complex email routing?
@ ARPANET, ! UUCP, : Berknet
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Who founded UUNET and what was it?
Rick Adams, a large ISP

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