WEB BROWSERS TECHNOLOGY
THE INTERNET
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The Defense DepartmentResearch Project
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The Infrastructure planned for the 1980’s
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The government communications plan for the year
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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: -In 1975, ARPANET was declared operational and was used to develop further communications technology. In time, several computers in other countries were also added using satellite links.
Detailed explanation-3: -Roots of a network. ARPANET was an end-product of a decade of computer-communications developments spurred by military concerns that the Soviets might use their jet bombers to launch surprise nuclear attacks against the United States.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1969, the precursor to the Internet began with the U.S. Defense Department’s ARPAnet. ARPA-funded researchers developed many of the protocols still used for most Internet communication.