An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides services for accessing, using, the Internet. Internet service providers may be organized in various forms, such as commercial, community-owned, non-profit, or otherwise privately owned. 

Internet services typically provided by ISPs include Internet access, Internet transit, domain name registration, web hosting, Usenet service, and colocation. 

The Internet was developed as a network between government research laboratories and participating departments of universities. By the late 1980s, a process was set in place towards public, commercial use of the Internet. The remaining restrictions were removed by 1995, 4 years after the introduction of the World Wide Web. 

In 1989, the first ISPs were established in Australia and the United States. In Brookline, Massachusetts, The World became the first commercial ISP in the US. Its first customer was served in November 1989. 

On 23 April 2014, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was reported to be considering a new rule that will permit ISPs to offer content providers a faster track to send content, thus reversing their earlier net neutrality position. A possible solution to net neutrality concerns may be municipal broadband, according to Professor Susan Crawford, a legal and technology expert at Harvard Law School. On 15 May 2014, the FCC decided to consider two options regarding Internet services: first, permit fast and slow broadband lanes, thereby compromising net neutrality; and second, reclassify broadband as a telecommunication service, thereby preserving net neutrality. On 10 November 2014, President Barack Obama recommended that the FCC reclassify broadband Internet service as a telecommunications service in order to preserve net neutrality. On 16 January 2015, Republicans presented legislation, in the form of a U.S. Congress H.R. discussion draft bill, that makes concessions to net neutrality but prohibits the FCC from accomplishing the goal or enacting any further regulation affecting Internet service providers. On 31 January 2015, AP News reported that the FCC will present the notion of applying ("with some caveats") Title II (common carrier) of the Communications Act of 1934 to the internet in a vote expected on 26 February 2015. Adoption of this notion would reclassify internet service from one of information to one of the telecommunications and, according to Tom Wheeler, chairman of the FCC, ensure net neutrality. The FCC is expected to enforce net neutrality in its vote, according to the New York Times. QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. How can an ISP be defined?
2. What does the term ISP refer to?
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Q2:
1. What is ISP short for?
2. What is meant by the acronym ISP?
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Q3:
1. When was the first ISP started in the US?
2. When did the first ISP come about in the United States?
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Q4:
1. Where was the first ISP created in the US?
2. What was the location of the first ISP in the United States?
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Q5:
1. What was the first ISP called?
2. What was the name of the first ISP?
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Q6:
1. How did the internet come about?
2. How can the creation of the internet be described?
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Q7:
1. When did the internet become available to the general public?
2. When did normal people start having access to the internet?
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Q8:
1. What is the general purpose of an ISP?
2. What does an ISP normally give people?
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Q10:
1. What does Susan Crawford do?
2. What is Susan Crawford's occupation?
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Q11:
1. What was Susan Crawford's answer to threats to net neutrality?
2. How did Susan Crawford believe that threats to net neutrality could be solved?
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Q12:
1. What would be the outcome of broadband being called a telecommunications service?
2. If broadband started being referred to as a telecommunications service, what would result?
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Q13:
1. What did Barack Obama want to do about broadband?
2. What solution did Barack Obama think up regarding broadband?
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Q14:
1. Who did not want there to be additional rules for ISPs?
2. Who wanted to prevent additional restrictions from being put on ISPs?
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Q15:
1. Is net neutrality going to win out in the upcoming vote?
2. Are people soon going to vote to keep net neutrality in place?
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