World Wide Web
Browsers retrieve and display web pages. This topic is part of Internet within Technology. This page currently draws on 4 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
World Wide Web trivia questions
The World Wide Web is accessed using what kind of software?
Answer: Web browser
Bonus fact: Browsers retrieve and display web pages.
Who invented the World Wide Web?
Answer: Tim Berners-Lee
Bonus fact: Berners-Lee proposed the web at CERN in 1989.
Which protocol is used to transfer most web pages?
Answer: HTTP
Bonus fact: HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol.
Which two Stanford students founded Yahoo?
Answer: Jerry Yang and David Filo
Bonus fact: Their early directory was first called "Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web."