COMPUTER NETWORKING

INTRODUCTION

INTERNET HISTORY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
ARPANET got its money from NASA.
A
true
B
false
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

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: -The ARPANET protocols were, like our modern internet protocols, organized into layers. The protocols in the higher layers ran on top of the protocols in the lower layers.

Detailed explanation-3: -The precursor of today’s Internet, ARPANET was created by the US Department of Defense in 1969. However, it was in France and in Inria’s laboratories that some of the basics of the packet-switching protocol were invented four years later.

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