Web Science/Part1: Foundations of the web/Internet vs World Wide Web/Motivation and requirements for the World Wide Web/quiz

{What is true about Hypertext? - It was first conceived by Tim Berners-Lee + The ideas are older than Computers + People in the late 40's already thought of this - Hyperlinks are always created in two directions - It needs a central server to coordinate the link network
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{Which problems has led to the invention of the World Wide Web - CERN was keen on making software inventions for computing + CERN had a need for an information management system + loads of different hardware existed and information should be easy to exchange independent on what hardware it was stored - TCP was still not a fully reliable protocol - gopher started to use a commercial licence + Various operating systems and formats for data existed. + Systems for linking information in documents would not scale or operate successfully on the Internet
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 * even though this helped the world wide web with its success this never lead to the invention

{What technical building blocks were essential for the World Wide Web? - Ethernet + TCP + IP - Linux + DNS + Hypertext
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