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The United States' National Defense Education Act was established in what year?
1958
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What do people typically call a web browser?
browser
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What platform is a browser used on?
World Wide Web
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What does URL mean?
Uniform Resource Identifier
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What allows a person to direct their browser to a resource?
Hyperlinks
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The primary function of a browser is to use what?
the World Wide Web
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In addition to accessing the Internet, browsers can also access info that is put there by web servers in what?
private networks
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A browser can also access files where?
file systems
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When was the first browser created?
1990
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Who invented the first browser?
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
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What was Berners-Lee a director of?
the World Wide Web Consortium
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What organization did Berners-Lee create?
World Wide Web Foundation
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Who released Mosaic?
Marc Andreessen
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When was Mosaic released?
1993
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When Andreessen left the company he worked for, what new company did he start?
Netscape
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What browser did Andreessen release in 1994?
Netscape Navigator
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Who released the Internet Explorer browser?
Microsoft
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When did Microsoft release Internet Explorer?
1995
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The release of Internet Explorer started the first what?
browser war
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What was bundled with Internet Explorer?
Windows
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Opera was introduced in what year?
1996
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What accounted for 1.1% of browser use in April 2011?
Opera-mini version
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Opera focused on which quickly growing market?
mobile phone web browser
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Opera is also available on which video game console?
Nintendo's Wii
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What did Netscape launch in 1998?
Mozilla Foundation
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Netscape wanted to have a competitive browser using what?
open source software model
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What was the resulting browser for the Mozilla Foundation?
Firefox
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When was Firefox released?
late 2004
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When was the first beta release for Safari?
January 2003
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Who created Safari?
Apple
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Which browser is the newest to enter the field?
Chrome
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When was Chrome released?
September 2008
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As Chrome usage increases, which browser usage has continued to decrease?
Internet Explorer
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When did Chrome become more used than all versions of Internet Explorer?
May 2012
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What was bundled for free with the Windows OS?
Internet Explorer
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Internet Explorer was partially funded in what two ways?
sales of Windows to computer manufacturers and direct to users
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What other OS could use Internet Explorer?
Mac
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Who investigated the bundling of the IE browser with Windows OS?
the European Commission
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When did the European Commission say they would investigate the bundling?
January 2009
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The Commission felt that bundling the browser with Windows computers harmed what?
competition between web browsers
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The Commission felt that the bundling undermined what?
product innovation
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What browser was automatically included with OS X?
Safari
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Which company pays Firefox to make their search engine the default on their browser?
Google
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What other browser has Google as the default search engine?
Chrome
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The increased revenue funds what, in addition to Google?
Google Chrome
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What is the main use of a browser?
to bring information resources to the user
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What does URL stand for?
Uniform Resource Locator
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What is the determining factor in how a URL will be interpreted?
The prefix of the URL
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What does http stand for?
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
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What does ftp stand for?
File Transfer Protocol
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A news: prefix is given to the user's what?
default newsgroup reader
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What is it called when content is changed from markup to an interactive document?
rendering
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Browsers typically have plug-ins to support what?
Flash applications and Java applets
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What can resources have to connect to other resources?
hyperlinks
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Features on a browser can range from minimal with little support to what?
rich user interfaces
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When a browser includes a lot of extras, it can be referred to as what?
Internet suites
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What does IRC stand for?
Internet Relay Chat
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What does not allow windows to pop up without consent?
pop-up blockers
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A computer program that continues the functionality of a browser is called what?
browser extension
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A list of websites a user can click to get back to easy have been what by the user?
bookmarked
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What are "bookmarks" called in Internet Explorer?
Favorites
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The top browsers have a built-in what?
feed aggregator
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Firefox does web feeds as what?
live bookmarks
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The Opera feed reader is more what?
traditional
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HTTP Secure is supported by what?
Most browsers
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Cache, download history, cookies, browsing and what else can be quickly deleted in browsers?
form and search history
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A comparison of browser must be seen to know what?
current security vulnerabilities
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Quick development of what kind of browsers led to non-standard HTML dialects?
proprietary web browsers
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Non-standard dialects led to what?
problems with interoperability
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Modern browser support standards-based and defacto what?
HTML and XHTML
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HTML and XHTML should be what by all browsers?
rendered in the same way
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A user interface, UI backend, layout engine and other things are part of what?
Web browsers
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The layout engine, rendering engine, user interface and other things are components that offer different what of web browsers?
functionalities
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What is the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System?
a Chinese satellite navigation system
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How many satellite constellations does the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System have?
two separate satellite constellations
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What are the two satellite constellations?
a limited test system that has been operating since 2000, and a full-scale global navigation system
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How long has the limited test system been operating?
since 2000
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How is the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System written in traditional Chinese?
北斗衛星導航系統
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What was the first BeiDou system called?
the BeiDou Satellite Navigation Experimental System
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Who does the BeiDou-1 operate for?
mainly for customers in China and neighboring regions
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What is another name for the BeiDou Satellite Navigation Experimental System?
BeiDou-1
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How many satellites does the BeiDou-1 have?
three
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How long has the BeiDou-1 been operating?
since 2000
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What is the name of the second generation of BDS?
BeiDou Navigation Satellite System
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What is another name for the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System?
COMPASS or BeiDou-2
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How many satellites will the BeiDou-2 have?
35
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When did the BeiDou-2 begin construction?
January 2015
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When did the BeiDou-2 begin operating?
December 2011
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When did China begin constructing the third BeiDou system?
mid 2015
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What is the third BeiDou system called?
BDS-3
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When was the first BDS-3 satellite launched?
30 September 2015
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How many BDS-3 satellites have been launched?
4
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How long ago was the BeiDou Satellite System first launched?
Fifteen years
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How much revenue for companies is generated by the BDS system?
$31.5 billion
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What are some companies that profit from the BDS system?
China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp, AutoNavi Holdings Ltd, and China North Industries Group Corp.
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What is the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System named after?
the Big Dipper constellation
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What is the Big Dipper constellation known as in Chinese?
Běidǒu
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What does Běidǒu translate as?
Northern Dipper
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Who named the constellation Běidǒu?
ancient Chinese astronomers
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What was the Běidǒu constellation used for?
to locate the North Star Polaris
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