Final answer:
Option D from Paragraph 12 best supports the idea behind the creation of the Internet, highlighting its initial purpose and broad impact on communication.
Step-by-step explanation:
"The Internet was created with the goal of making it easier for computer scientists to communicate with one another," is the passage from the text that most strongly supports the response to Part A. However, it also made communication amongst others simpler for everyone else (Paragraph 12). This statement highlights the initial purpose behind the development of the Internet, which was to facilitate communication between computer scientists, and acknowledges its expansion in making communication easier for the broader public.
Question:
4. PART B: Which detail from the text best supports the answer to Part A?
A "The data had to travel across that path exactly and could only be accessed by one of the two devices in the circuit." ( Paragraph 5)
B "When Bob Taylor said ‘talking online with someone at S.D.C.’ in 1999, he both meant the same thing and a very different thing than we do now." ( Paragraph 7)
C "The World Wide Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 and it is the application used to create and view websites." ( Paragraph 9)
D "The Internet was created with the goal to make it easier for computer scientists to talk to one another. But it also made it easier for everyone else to talk to one another" ( Paragraph 12)