UPSC Civil Services Model Paper 8

ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) was a project undertaken by the US defence department.
Hence, Statement 1 is incorrect.
It is the first internet.
It was the first wide-area packet-switching network with distributed control and one of the first networks to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite.
Hence, Statement 2 is correct.
It allowed file transfer from one computer to another connected to the network.
Hence, Statement 3 is correct.
J. C. R. Licklider, Bob Taylor initiated the ARPANET project in 1966 to enable access to remote computers.
The first computers were connected in 1969 and the Network Control Program was implemented in 1970 .
Further software development enabled remote login, file transfer, and email.
The network expanded rapidly and was declared operational in 1975 when control passed to the Defense Communications Agency.
The ARPANET had its first host-to-host protocol, the Network Control Protocol (NCP) in 1970.
The concept of “Internetting”, or “open-architecture networking”, first introduced in 1972.
Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web.