Multiple choice general knowledge

Who developed the HTTP and HTML protocols, ushering in the age of the world wide web?

  1. Robert Metcalfe

  2. David Boggs

  3. Tim Berners-Lee

  4. Leonard Kleinrock
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Explanation

Tim Berners-Lee, working at CERN, developed HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) and HTML (HyperText Markup Language) in 1989-1990, creating the foundation of the World Wide Web. This allowed documents to be linked and accessed globally. Metcalfe and Boggs developed Ethernet, and Kleinrock contributed to ARPANET.

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