Question

Which of the following statements about the Internet and World Wide Web are correct?

(i) Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn are regarded as the fathers of the Internet.

(ii) Tim Berners-Lee is the founder of the World Wide Web.

(iii) Jerry Yang and David Fib started a directory of web pages called Yahoo.

(iv) PageRank, developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, later evolved into what became known as Google.

• A. Only (i) and (ii)
• B. Only (ii) and (iv)
• C. Only (ii), (iii) and (iv)
• D. All the above

Answer 1

Answer:

D. All the above

Key Contributors to the Internet and World Wide Web

• Fathers of the Internet: Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn are widely recognized as the fathers of the Internet. They co-designed the TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) protocols, which serve as the fundamental communications architecture for the Internet.
• ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) was the precursor to the modern Internet, developed by the United States Department of Defense.

Evolution of the World Wide Web (WWW)

• Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web in 1989 while working at CERN.
• He also wrote the first web browser, the HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) standard, and the HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) protocol.

History of Yahoo

• Yahoo was founded in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo (misspelled as Fib in some contexts but historically referring to Filo) while they were graduate students at Stanford University.
• It began as a website directory named "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" before being renamed to Yahoo! (Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle).

Origins of Google

• Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were PhD students at Stanford University.
• The search engine was initially nicknamed PageRank (and also BackRub), which analyzed the back-link relationships between websites to estimate their importance, eventually evolving into Google.