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  Acronyms 2
200
FUD
Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt

400
IETF
Internet Engineering Task Force

600
GNU
GNU's Not Unix

800
RDF
Resource Description Framework

1000
ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange

Search Engines
200
The technology behind Altavista's question-processing interface
What is
Ask Jeeves?

400
Hotbot returns results from these two sources
What are
Inktomi and Direct Hit?

600
The search engine that offers "I'm feeling lucky"?
What is
Google?

800
The portal whose search engine was originally named Architext.
What is
Excite?

1000
The wily search engine technology being developed by IBM.
What is
Clever?

Across the Pond
200
France's woefully obsolete nationwide computer network
What is
Minitel?

400
German Mac-only Web browser
What is
iCab?

600
The country where the Web was born
What is
Switzerland?

800
The ISP that set the UK internet market on its head by offering free access
What is
Freeserve?

1000
The country where the most notorious anonymous remailier once lived
Finland
(bonus:
The remailer's URL?
What is
anon.penet.fi)

Slashdot
200
The man responsible for its creation
Who is
Rob Malda?
(bonus:
His Slashdot handle.
What is CmdrTaco?)

400
What unregistered users are labelled as
What is Anonymous Coward?

600
Freed from the bounds of pesky editors, he now rants about geek culture on /.
Who is
Jon Katz?

800
Slashdot's attempt to catalog all human knowledge
What is
Everything?

1000
The company that has just acquired Slashdot.
What is
Andover.net?

Web Tech
200
Cross-platform open source hypertext preprocessor that's an alternative to ASP.
What is
PHP?

400
Dave Winer's content management system
What is
Frontier?

600
The math behind the 216 "Web-safe" palette
What is
6x6x6?

800
W3C Specification for authoring multimedia presentations
What is
SMIL?

1000
A programming API allowing Web developers to access and manipulate elements of a Web page
What is the
Document Object Model?

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