History of the Internet

The first network was called

ARPANET

What US agency originally started ARPANET?

Department of Advanced Research Projects Agency

One of the biggest changes to the usability of the Internet for people was the ability to use an easy way to remember site addresses. Which of the following was responsible for this?

ICANN

Who first thought of the "galactic network?"

J. C. R. Licklider

The agency that started ARPANET was looking for technologies that could be used by

The military

Who came up with the idea for hypertex?

Tim Berners-Lee

______ are programs that help people work and play online.

applications

lets people access their stored data from a device that can access the Internet.

cloud computing

Check all of the improvements and inventions of the 1970s.

e-mail hardware improvements improved data transmissions

Which of these improved the ability to send information over the network in the 1970s?

ethernet

Local Area Networks (LANs) _________.

increase networking speed

DARPA was created to:

investigate technologies for the military in the US.

WANs are

networks that cover a large geographic area

Cloud computing allows:

people to access information and applications from a web browser.

The TCP/IP protocol was invented by

robert kahn and vinton cerf

What was the original reason for the creation of ARPANET?

scientists and researchers could communicate and share information

LANs are

short ranged networks that increase speed of the network

Mobile technologies access the network and are recent inventions. What are mobile technologies? (select all that apply)

smartphones laptops tablets netbooks

The first idea for a communications network was called:

the galactic network

The person responsible for the creation of the group known as ICANN is

vinton cerf