Many people worry about what would happen if either the Internet or the World Wide Web went down (if they suffered a complete outage and were unreachable). A) If the Internet went down, the World Wide Web would also go down, since the WWW relies on the Internet protocols.
B) If the World Wide Web went down, the Internet would also go down, since the Internet relies on the WWW protocols.
C) If elther the Internet or the World Wide Web go down, the other system will not necessarily go down as well, as they fully independent of each other.
D) If either the Internet or the World Wide Web go down both systems would have to go down together, since they are interdependent.

The correct answer is A. If the Internet went down, the World Wide Web would also go down, since the WWW relies on the Internet protocols.

Explanation:

The Internet is a worldwide association of computer networks, the autonomous systems. It enables the use of Internet services such as WWW, e-mail, etc. Each computer can connect to any other computer, and the data exchange between the computers connected via the Internet takes place via the technically standardized Internet protocols.

The proliferation of the internet has led to extensive upheavals in many areas of life. It contributed to a surge in modernization in many areas of the economy as well as to the emergence of new branches of the economy and has led to a fundamental change in communication behavior and media use in both professional and private life. The cultural significance of this development is sometimes equated with the invention of the printing press.