Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)

1. The ARPANet, the precursor to today’s Internet, was funded primarily by the U.S. Department of Defense.

2. Because the ARPANet utilized ordinary phone lines to connect computers over large distances, it was slow compared to existing technologies of the time.

3. In a centralized computer network, the failure of a single machine or connection can isolate large portions of the network.

4. A router is a special-purpose computer on the Internet that receives message packets, access routing information, and passes the packets on towards their destination.

5. When a message is broken into packets as transmitted over the Internet, it is guaranteed that all packets will take the same route from source to destination.

1. TRUE

2. FALSE

3. TRUE

4. TRUE

5. FALSE