Q 01/05

Which 1996 film's promotional website stayed online unchanged for 25 years, becoming a time capsule of early web design?

A) Twister

B) Space Jam

C) Jerry Maguire

D) The Rock

Answer · why

B) Space Jam

Space Jam's site, heavy with animated GIFs, sat untouched until a sequel's trailer arrived in 2021. The 1996 pages still survive as a separate landing...

Q 02/05

Which navigation aid shows a page's place in a site's hierarchy as a trail of links back to the home page?

A) Breadcrumbs

B) Sitemap

C) Pagination

D) Accordion menu

Answer · why

A) Breadcrumbs

Breadcrumbs take their name from the trail the fairy-tale siblings dropped to find their way home. On a site they show where the current page sits in ...

Q 03/05

Which HTML tag began as an idea Netscape's Lou Montulli raised in a bar, coded overnight by a colleague?

A) marquee

B) center

C) font

D) blink

Answer · why

D) blink

The blink tag made text flash on and off. Browsers later abandoned it, and Firefox removed support in version 23.

Q 04/05

Which phrase, borrowed from newspaper front pages, describes the part of a web page visible without scrolling?

A) Banner headline

B) Front matter

C) Above the fold

D) Masthead

Answer · why

C) Above the fold

Above the fold first meant the upper half of a folded newspaper's front page, the prime spot because it stays visible while the paper sits on a news s...

Q 05/05

Which browser reached over 90 percent of web usage in 2001 after winning the first browser war of the 1990s?

A) Internet Explorer

B) Netscape Navigator

C) NCSA Mosaic

D) Mozilla Firefox

Answer · why

A) Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer came bundled with every copy of Windows, so customers already had it installed as the default before they could choose a rival.