WEB BROWSERS TECHNOLOGY
THE INTERNET
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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true
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false
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), the forerunner of the Internet, was a pioneering long-haul network funded by the U.S. Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA).
Detailed explanation-2: -On Oct. 27, 1980, the ARPANET-the U.S. Department of Defense’s precursor to the Internet-experienced a four-hour downtime when two Interface Message Processors (IMPs) miscommunicated simultaneously. The result of the malfunction was something akin to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), an arm of the U.S. Defense Department, funded the development of the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) in the late 1960s. Its initial purpose was to link computers at Pentagon-funded research institutions over telephone lines.
Detailed explanation-4: -It is the first internet. It was the first wide-area packet-switching network with distributed control and one of the first networks to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite. Hence, Statement 2 is correct.