COMPUTER NETWORKING

INTRODUCTION

INTERNET HISTORY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
When was the Internet made available to the general public?
A
1988
B
1991
C
1965
D
1999
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -On April 30, 1993, four years after publishing a proposal for “an idea of linked information systems, ‘’ computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee released the source code for the world’s first web browser and editor.

Detailed explanation-2: -Twenty-five years ago today, the World Wide Web announced that it was for everybody. On April 30, 1993, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) put the web into the public domain a decision that has fundamentally altered the past quarter-century.

Detailed explanation-3: -The pre-Web Internet was an almost entirely text-based world. There were ASCII-based end-user programs such as gopher, which let you use a menu to search through organized collections of files. You might think of this as a predecessor to Yahoo!, and you wouldn’t be far wrong.

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