Originally starting as 'Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web,' what popular internet company was founded in 1994 by Stanford University students Jerry Yang and David Filo?
Netscape Navigator, released in 1994, rapidly became the dominant web browser. What major event eventually led to its decline in market share?
In 1994, what company placed the internet's very first widely recognized banner advertisement on the HotWired.com website?
What controversial peer-to-peer file-sharing service, launched in 1999, had a massive impact on the music industry and led to significant legal battles over copyright infringement?
What year was the popular video-sharing platform YouTube founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim?
The widespread adoption of 'broadband' internet connections (high-speed always-on internet) significantly changed how people used the internet. When did broadband internet connections begin to outnumber dial-up connections in U.S. homes?
The term 'cyberspace' was coined by which science fiction author in his 1984 novel 'Neuromancer'?
What was the name of the very first search engine, created in 1990, which indexed FTP sites and allowed users to find specific files?
Before the World Wide Web became dominant, what hierarchical, text-based protocol was widely used for organizing and retrieving documents from the internet, often described as a 'menu-driven' interface?
While Tim Berners-Lee is credited with the WWW, who articulated the vision for a global, interconnected hypertext system called 'Project Xanadu' as early as the 1960s, a concept that heavily influenced future web development?