Name: Enrico DAlessio Date: February, 7 2017

THE INTERNET: HOW DID IT DEVELOP?

Fill in the blanks by selecting the most appropriate term from the list provided.

Note: Terms may be used more than once.

Backbone Net 1983 E-mail ARPA Telecommunications WAN LAN ISP MIL

NSF Protocol TCP/IP File sharing Switching stations Supercomputers

1. The Internet is also known as a very large LAN .

2. The ARPA Net was the first network of the Internet.
3. A network is like Backbone a highway that makes it possible for information to travel
in cyberspace.
4. A more common term for the Internet is simply the Net. This term was first used in
the year 1983.
5. Besides the sharing of scientific and engineering information, the other popular use for the
ARPANET was E-Mail.
6. When the first network split into two, the part that was mostly used by the academic
community was known as TCP/IP Net.
7. In the 1980s, the academic community needed a faster network to interconnect its
Telecommunications and to exchange information among its members. The
network that served this purpose was known as WAN Net.
8. In the 1990s, NSF Net fully replaced the older MIL Net.
9. There was a growing number of people with computers and interest in the Internet in the
1990s. This increase resulted in File sharing companies building new high-speed
networks that worked the same way as the existing ones.
10. When two devices can transmit information to each other in the same format (like speaking
the same language), they are using the same Supercomputers .
11. The language of the Internet Protocol was freely available to developers of new
networks. This availability led to the rapid growth of the Internet in the 1980s and 1990s.
12. A company that provides Internet access for a fee is called a(n) ISP