GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

GK

TECHNOLOGY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The first web server was built in:
A
1990 in Geneva, Switzerland
B
1985 in Berkeley, California
C
1988 in Cambridge, Massachusetts
D
1947 in Berningham, UK
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -By the end of 1990, Tim Berners-Lee had the first Web server and browser up and running at CERN, demonstrating his ideas. He developed the code for his Web server on a NeXT computer. To prevent it being accidentally switched off, the computer had a hand-written label in red ink: “This machine is a server.

Detailed explanation-2: -On 12 December 1991, the first web server outside Europe was installed at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in California. It provided access to SPIRES, a database with information for scientists working in HEP (High Energy Physics), including the ability to search for publications.

Detailed explanation-3: -info.cern.ch was the address of the world’s first web server, running on a NeXT computer at CERN. The world’s first web page address provided information about the World Wide Web project.

Detailed explanation-4: -Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world.

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