General Knowledge

The Internet was developed in the…

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A. Early 1990s
B. Late 1980s
C. Early 1970s
D. Late 1960s
✅ The correct answer is option D.
As surprising as its age is, the Internet was born from the U.S. military’s need to construct a decentralized computer network that could withstand a nuclear war. The network was used and refined by universities throughout the 1970s and 1980s, but it wasn’t until 1992 that the Internet was made available to the general public.

In 1983, which person was the first to offer a definition of the term ‘computer virus’?

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A. McAfee
B. Smith
C. Cohen
D. Norton
✅ The correct answer is option C.
1983 Fred Cohen, while working on his dissertation, formally defines a computer virus as ‘a computer program that can affect other computer programs by modifying them in such a way as to include a (possibly evolved)copy of itself.’