FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

WEB BROWSERS TECHNOLOGY

THE INTERNET

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who laid the ground work for what we call the internet?
A
Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn
B
Khan Academy
C
Ball Nerf and Vincent van Gogh
D
Bill Gates
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -BOB KAHN (1938–) AND VINT CERF (1943–) American computer scientists who developed TCP/IP, the set of protocols that governs how data moves through a network. This helped the ARPANET evolve into the internet we use today. Vint Cerf is credited with the first written use of the word ‘internet’.

Detailed explanation-2: -Widely known as a “Father of the Internet, ” Vint is the co-designer with Robert Kahn of TCP/IP protocols and basic architecture of the Internet. In 1997, President Clinton recognized their work with the U.S. National Medal of Technology.

Detailed explanation-3: -Robert E. Kahn. Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf created the architecture for the Internet and collaborated on the design of software known as the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, or TCP/IP that implements the architecture.

Detailed explanation-4: -Cerf worked at the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) from 1973 to 1982 and funded various groups to develop TCP/IP, packet radio (PRNET), packet satellite (SATNET) and packet security technology. These efforts were rooted in the needs of the military.

Detailed explanation-5: -In 1973 while working as a professor at Stanford University, Cerf and Robert Kahn began the design of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP) that allow data to flow between computers.

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