ARPANET was an early project funded by which country to develop a computer network that evolved into the Internet?

ARPANET was an early project funded by which country to develop a computer network that evolved into the Internet?

• A. United States
• B. United Kingdom
• C. Germany
• D. France

Answer: (A)

ARPANET was funded by the United States government to create a network that would let researchers at different institutions share computing resources. The project came from ARPA, the Advanced Research Projects Agency (now DARPA), under the U.S. Department of Defense. It began in 1969 with a handful of universities and grew as researchers developed and adopted protocols like TCP/IP, which eventually formed the backbone of the Internet. Because the funding and leadership originated in the United States, this project is tied to the U.S. rather than the United Kingdom, Germany, or France.

ARPANET was funded by the United States government to create a network that would let researchers at different institutions share computing resources. The project came from ARPA, the Advanced Research Projects Agency (now DARPA), under the U.S. Department of Defense. It began in 1969 with a handful of universities and grew as researchers developed and adopted protocols like TCP/IP, which eventually formed the backbone of the Internet. Because the funding and leadership originated in the United States, this project is tied to the U.S. rather than the United Kingdom, Germany, or France.