What does the http and https stand for in a web address?
hypertext transfer protocol
What is the internet protocol suite called?
TCP/IP
What important piece of hardware began mass production in 1958?
integrated circuitModem (thanks @Dorrulf@Braegh instead!)
What protocol replaced DIXIE and DAS in 1993?
LDAP
Which would give:
HTML
Riddle:
Search for the answer, next knows the way.
Steve Jobs was ceo of next
Tell me the apple wants me to stay.
Apple rehired steve jobs (alternatively Steve Wozniak wasn't asked to leave by apple)
Eat quite the bill.
Steve Ballmer replaced bill gates as CEO (fits the steve acrostic), but Microsoft is probably the answer. Alternative explanation is they heavily use the term eating your own dog food
Very alien will.
IBM is one letter off HAL (from 2001 a space odyssey)
Each has their place in this play.
Pirates of silicon valley (or maybe triumph of the nerds)Silicon Valley
To sum it all up
The acrostics come out to be STEVE NAMIS, I expect my answer for #4 is wrong, so I'm guessing it's STEVE NAMES which would be jobs and wozniak most likely.
Bonus:
Probably google's with all the searching you had to do to make this puzzle ;)Microsoft
@PerpetualJ should be able to figure out my reasoning for the bonus