Placing the earliest first, arrange the following international events in the chronological order: 1. Introduction of www (World Wide Web) 2. Advent of Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles 3. Launch of first communication satellite Select the answer using the code given below:
- (a)2 – 1 – 3
- (b)1 – 2 – 3
- (c)3 – 2 – 1
- (d)2 – 3 – 1
Correct — D, 2 – 3 – 1. Taking the earliest first: the Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile came first — the Soviet R-7 Semyorka, the world's first ICBM, was successfully tested in August 1957. The first communication satellites followed at the end of the 1950s and early 1960s (Project SCORE in 1958 relayed a recorded message from orbit; Telstar, the first active direct-relay satellite, launched in 1962). The World Wide Web came last — Tim Berners-Lee proposed it at CERN in 1989 and the first website went live in 1991. So the order is ICBM, then communication satellite, then WWW: 2 – 3 – 1.
- (a)2 – 1 – 3 — This puts the World Wide Web (1989-91) before the communication satellite (1958-62), which reverses their true order.
- (b)1 – 2 – 3 — This makes the World Wide Web the earliest event, but it is actually the most recent of the three.
- (c)3 – 2 – 1 — This places the communication satellite before the ICBM, but the ICBM (1957) came first, ahead of the first comms satellites (1958 onward).
Three milestones of the Cold War and Information Age fall in a clear order. Long-range rocketry (the ICBM) came first in 1957 and, crucially, provided the launch vehicles that then put the first communication satellites into orbit at the turn of the 1960s. The World Wide Web — an information system built on top of the already-existing Internet — arrived three decades later, around 1989-91.
The trap is that all three feel 'modern', so students may mis-order them. Two anchors fix the sequence: the ICBM predates spaceflight (the same rocket family launched early satellites), and the WWW is much newer than people assume, dating only from 1989 — not the 1970s. That immediately gives ICBM, then satellite, then WWW.
- The Soviet R-7, the first ICBM, was successfully tested in August 1957.
- Early communication satellites: Project SCORE (1958) and Telstar (1962).
- The rockets developed as ICBMs were adapted to launch the first satellites.
- Tim Berners-Lee proposed the World Wide Web at CERN in 1989; the first website went live in 1991.
- The World Wide Web is much newer (1989) than most people guess — it comes last, not first.
- The ICBM predates the communication satellite; the same rocket technology launched early satellites.
Asked as a chronological-ordering (sequence) item on 20th-century science and technology milestones.
Who among the following is considered as the inventor of the World Wide Web (WWW)?
- (a) Edward Kasner
- (b) Bill Gates
- (c) Tim Berners-Lee
- (d) Vinod Bham
Answer(c) Tim Berners-Lee — he proposed and built the WWW at CERN in 1989.
UPSC tests the origin of the World Wide Web directly - the same milestone whose late-1980s date fixes the chronology in this question.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The World Wide Web was proposed in 1989 by whom, at CERN?
- (a)Vint Cerf
- (b)Tim Berners-Lee
- (c)Robert Kahn
- (d)Bill Gates
Answer(b) Tim Berners-Lee — he proposed the WWW at CERN in 1989 and built the first website in 1991.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Which came first?
- (a)The World Wide Web
- (b)The first ICBM
- (c)The first personal computer
- (d)The first smartphone
Answer(b) The first ICBM — the Soviet R-7 was tested in 1957, well before the others.