What did CERN decide in April 1993?

To make the web software free for anyone to use

How does the web differ from the internet?

The web is a service running on the internet

World Wide Web Quiz: Tim Berners-Lee and the First Website

A software engineer at CERN wanted scientists to share documents easily, and this World Wide Web quiz follows Tim Berners-Lee's idea from proposal to everyday life. Play 10 interactive questions on Robert Cailliau, HTML, HTTP and URLs, the NeXT computer, info.cern.ch, the 1993 royalty-free release, Mosaic, the W3C and his Turing Award.

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 150 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 150s

Inventor
Who invented the World Wide Web?
Year
In which year did Berners-Lee write his first proposal?
Lab
Where was the web invented?
Website
What was the address of the first website?
Computer
On which computer did Berners-Lee build the first web server?
Partner
Which CERN colleague helped promote the project?
Parts
Which three technologies form the web's foundation?
Free
What did CERN decide in April 1993?
Browser
Which 1993 browser made the web popular with images?
Difference
How does the web differ from the internet?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: Who invented the World Wide Web?
Answer: Tim Berners-Lee
He worked at CERN near Geneva.
Q2: In which year did Berners-Lee write his first proposal?
Answer: 1989
His boss Mike Sendall called it vague but exciting.
Q3: Where was the web invented?
Answer: CERN
CERN is the European physics laboratory near Geneva.
Q4: What was the address of the first website?
Answer: info.cern.ch
It explained how the web worked.
Q5: On which computer did Berners-Lee build the first web server?
Answer: A NeXT computer
A sign on it warned not to power it down.
Q6: Which CERN colleague helped promote the project?
Answer: Robert Cailliau
Cailliau co-wrote a revised proposal in 1990.
Q7: Which three technologies form the web's foundation?
Answer: HTML, HTTP and URLs
They define pages, transfer and addresses.
Q8: What did CERN decide in April 1993?
Answer: To make the web software free for anyone to use
This helped the web grow rapidly.
Q9: Which 1993 browser made the web popular with images?
Answer: Mosaic
It was developed at the University of Illinois.
Q10: How does the web differ from the internet?
Answer: The web is a service running on the internet
The internet connects networks; the web links documents across it.

World Wide Web Quiz – How the Web Was Born

In 1989 Tim Berners-Lee, a software engineer at CERN, proposed a system to help scientists share information. His boss wrote vague but exciting on the proposal. With Robert Cailliau, he developed it further.

Berners-Lee created HTML, HTTP and URLs, built the first browser and server on a NeXT computer and launched the first website at info.cern.ch. In April 1993 CERN made the web software free for anyone to use.

Browsers such as Mosaic made the web popular. Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium in 1994, was knighted in 2004 and won the Turing Award for 2016. The web runs on the internet but is not the same thing.

What This Quiz Teaches

Tech fans and students will enjoy these questions.

Who invented the web
Where it began
Which technologies it uses
Why it spread so fast
How it differs from the internet

Did You Know?

The first browser was called WorldWideWeb.
CERN restored the first website in 2013.
The first image on the web showed a CERN comedy band.
Berners-Lee now campaigns for data rights.
Web pages are linked by hyperlinks.