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Which one of the following pairs of events and years is not correctly matched ?<\/p>\n

[amp_mcq option1=”Launch of the first communications satellite : 1962″ option2=”Completion of a continuous around the world fibre-optic cable link : 1997″ option3=”Creation of the SWIFT system for worldwide electronic interbank fund transfer : 1977″ option4=”Introduction of the World Wide Web (www) : 1995″ correct=”option4″]<\/p>\n

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\nThe pair that is not correctly matched is D) Introduction of the World Wide Web (www) : 1995.
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\nA) Launch of the first communications satellite : 1962. Telstar 1, the first active communications satellite, was launched in 1962. This pair is correctly matched.
\nB) Completion of a continuous around the world fibre-optic cable link : 1997. Major projects like the Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG) connecting continents were becoming operational around this time (FLAG was completed in 1997). This pair is correctly matched.
\nC) Creation of the SWIFT system for worldwide electronic interbank fund transfer : 1977. The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) was founded in 1973 and started its messaging services for live payments in 1977. This pair is correctly matched.
\nD) Introduction of the World Wide Web (www) : 1995. The World Wide Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1989 and was released to the public in 1991. While the public adoption grew rapidly in the mid-1990s with browsers like Netscape, 1995 is not the year of its introduction.
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\nThe first web server was live in 1990, and the first web page was created in 1991. A significant event was CERN’s announcement in April 1993 that the WWW technology would be freely available to everyone, which spurred its widespread adoption.
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