MCQ IN COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

COMPUTER NETWORKING

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The Internet was originally developed by whom?
A
computer hackers
B
a corporation
C
the U.S. Department of Defense
D
the University of Michigan
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -ARPANET, in full Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, experimental computer network that was the forerunner of the Internet. The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), an arm of the U.S. Defense Department, funded the development of the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) in the late 1960s.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Why was the Internet created? The concept of the Internet was developed by the U.S. Department of Defense as a network that Would not be disrupted easily in event of an attack. What is ARPANET? ARPANET is the beginning of the Internet developed by the U.S. government.

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.

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