History of Internet

Who designed the X.25 protocol?

• NSFNET

• National Science Foundation

• Domain Name System

• Rémi Després

When did commercial Internet service providers (ISPs) emerge in the United States?

• 1986

• 1995

• 1989

• 1970s

Which organizations provided interconnectivity with the national supercomputing centers in the United States?

• Sprint, MCI and AT&T

• X.25 protocol

• National Science Foundation (NSF)

• Rémi Després and others

Who is the British computer scientist who is credited with creating the World Wide Web?

• Steve Jobs

• Albert Einstein

• Thomas Edison

• Tim Berners-Lee

What technology was responsible for the revolutionary impact of the Internet on culture, commerce, and technology in the mid-1990s?

• Satellite communication

• Analog modems

• Fiber optic cables

• Wireless routers

Who developed the idea of a universal network?

• Paul Baran

• J. C. R. Licklider

• Robert Taylor

• Donald Davies

What technology did ARPANET adopt for packet switching?

• Message blocks

• Time-sharing

• Data network

• Packet switching

Where was the host-to-host protocol specified for ARPANET?

• ` Bolt, Beranek, and Newman

• RAND Corporation

• IPTO

• UCLA

Who pioneered a simplified end-to-end approach to internetworking at the IRIA?

• Leonard Kleinrock

• Louis Pouzin

• Vint Cerf

• Bob Metcalfe

Which protocols evolved from the research of Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn in 1974?

• Ethernet and PARC Universal Packet

• ARPA projects

• CYCLADES project

• Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP)