Introduction to the Internet 

                           NG03c Review Questions

  1. What is the organization that originally fostered research 
     that led to the Internet?

  2. What was the original purpose of the network that became 
     Internet? 

  3. What group of people did the research that led to the 
     Internet? 

  4. The Internet doubles in number of users approximately every 
     how often? 

  5. Which kind of network pattern does the Internet use?

  6. Messages on the Internet are divided into chunks called _______.

  7. On the Internet, how is a route chosen for messages to be 
     sent to their destination? 

  8. What is the name for the protocol used by the Internet?

  9. Name three widely used types of service available on the Internet.

 10. In addition to sending and receiving personal messages, what 
     are two other services available through E-mail? 

 11. What are the two main ways of getting connected to the 
     Internet? 

 12. What are the two most popular World Wide Web browsing 
     programs? 

 13. What three organizations were given operational 
     responsibility for the Internet when DARPA turned the 
     project over to the National Science Foundation in 1987?

 14. What orgnization now handles technical innovations proposed 
     for the Internet?

 15. How would you describe the Internet to someone 
     who doesn't know about it?

 16. What is TCP/IP?



ANSWERS:
     1. Department of Defense; more precisely, the Advanced Research Projects Administration, or ARPA.
     2. To connect researchers (universities) to each other and to supercomputers.
     2. University-based computer scientists.
     4. Every 10 months
     5. Distributed.
     6. Packets.
     7. By the best available, or least busy set of connections.
     8. TCP/IP.
     9. Any 3 of the following: E-mail (electronic mail), research, getting information, discussing topics of interest, World Wide Web (WWW), getting files (FTP), playing games, simulation... (there are others that could be included, too).
    10. Sending to lists of recipients; subscribing to electronic publications; requesting and receiving information for research...
    11. Using a modem to connect to an Internet service provider, and connecting to an Internet node directly through a local area network.
    12. Netscape and Microsoft Internet Explorer.
    13. IBM, MCI, and Merit/University of Michigan.
    14. The Internet Society.
    15. The Internet is a network of networks, all of 
        which share the TCP/IP protocol.

    16. TCP/IP is the transmission and addressing 
        protocol used by the Internet.