Week4-History: Commercialization and Growth

Week4-History: Commercialization and Growth

• What institution agreed to be responsible for web standards in 1994?

1. World-Wide-Web Consortium (W3C)

• Between 1990 and 2006 the number of servers connected to the web grew from what to what?

1. 1 server to 120 million servers

• What browser did Netscape ultimately turn into?

1. Firefox

• How did the Mozilla foundation earn their money?

1. They added a search bar to their browser, and Google paid for the traffic directed to them.

• What web technologies does Brendan Eich include as part of creating the capabilities we refer to as HTML5?

1. CSS
2. Javascript

• ** Why did JavaScript never fail in the beginning, as most new programming languages do?**

1. It was written to be malleable, allowing programmers to establish their own patterns and best practices.
2. It was written by someone who had prior experience constructing a language, and knew what pitfalls to avoid in creating the initial product

• What was Mitchell Baker “fired” from Netscape for?

1. For repeatedly giving priority to the needs of the open source community over the needs of the commercial version of Netscape.

• What was Tim Berners Lee’s goal with establishing web standards?

1. To prevent the proprietary Balkanization of the web
2. To make sure that a single company could not determine the technical direction of the web

• Why did Jeff Bezos chose to start Amazon.com by selling books?

1. Books are the category of items that have the most different products, making it impossible to have a brick and mortar store with the same level of inventory.