COMPUTER NETWORKS AND COMMUNICATIONS
INTERNET AND WEB TECHNOLOGIES
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Question
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The US Government
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The Russians Government
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No single person or group runs/own the internet
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World Wide Web Consortium
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Detailed explanation-1: -No company or government can claim ownership of it. The internet is more of a concept than an actual tangible entity, and it relies on a physical infrastructure that connects networks to other networks.
Detailed explanation-2: -NICNet was established in 1995 for communications between government institutions. The network was operated by the National Informatics Centre. The first publicly available internet service in India was launched by state-owned Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL) on 15 August 1995.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -The invention of the internet cannot be credited to one person. Instead, it was the work of many engineers, programmers and scientists, according to History.com. While the modern internet was developed from ARPANET’s adoption communications model developed by Kahn and Vinton, this is different from the World Wide Web.