Q.1: Who is regarded as the ‘Father of Internet’?
a) Tim Berner Lee b) Vinton Cerf c) Bob Kahn d) Sundar Pichai
Ans: b) Vinton Cerf
(Imp Fact)
Bob Kahn and Vinton Cerf also designed Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP). It helps in data communication over the internet. For this work they got ‘Turning Award’ in 2004 and the ‘Presidential Medal of Freedom’ in 2005.
Q.2: Who is regarded as the ‘Father of World Wide Web’?
a) Tim Berners-Lee b) Ray Tomilson c) Vinton Cerf d) Bob Kahn
Ans: a) Tim Berners-Lee
Q.3: The first web page on the internet was built at CERN, and went online on _________?
a) 6 August 1990 b) 6 August 1991 c) 6 August 1992 d) 6 August 1993
Ans: b) 6 August 1991
Q.4: Which one is not a search engine?
a) Yandex b) Biadu c) Bing d) Reditt
Ans: d) Reditt
Q.5: Which one is considered as the first search engine?
a) Archie b) Berners c) Gopher d) Wandex
Ans: a) Archie
(Imp Fact)
Alan Ematge, a student at McGill University in Canada created the first search engine of the world (1990). Archie designed File Transfer Protocol (FTP) to help users to locate specific file. It was not an effective search engine as we are using now a days, but, it had opened portals to future research and advancement.
Q.6: Which is often described as the “killer application” of the internet?
a) Reels b) Shorts c) e-mail d) X
Ans: c) e-mail
(Imp Fact)
Sending of mail was not possible in ARPA and DARPA. It became possible after the advent of ARPANET. In 1971 Ray Tomlinson, an engineer working on ARPANET, wrote the first program capable of sending mail from a user on one host computer to another user’s mailbox on another host computer. As an identifier to distinguish network mail from local mail Tomlinson decided to append the host name of the user’s computer to the user login name. To separate the two name he chose the @ symbol.
Q.7: Who developed the message sending system called E-mail?
a) Ray Tomlinson b) Tim Berner Lee c) Ivy Lee d) Joseph Carl
Ans: a) Ray Tomlinson
In 1971 Ray Tomlinson, an engineer working on ARPANET, wrote the first program capable of sending mail from a user on one host computer to another user’s mailbox on another host computer. As an identifier to distinguish network mail from local mail Tomlinson decided to append the host name of the user’s computer to the user login name. To separate the two name he chose the @ symbol.
Q.8: Who gave the symbol of @ in e-mail addresses?
a) Time Berners Lee b) Jonathon Fletcher c) Jerry Young d) Ray Tomlinson
Ans: d) Ray Tomlinson
Q.9: Match the following:
| Sr.No | Search Engine | Sr.No | Country of Dominance |
| a) | Yandex | i) | Russia |
| b) | Biadu | ii) | China |
| c) | Naver | iii) | South Korea |
| d) | Seznam | iv) | Czech Republic |
A) a(i), b(ii), c(iii), d(iv)
B) a(i), b(ii), c(iv), d(iii)
C) a(ii), b(i), c(iii), d(iv)
D) a(iii), b(i), c(iv), d(ii)
Ans: A) a(i), b(ii), c(iii), d(iv)
Q.10: Read the following statements:
i) Tim Berners-Lee pioneered Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). It enables data communication over the web.
ii) Tim Berners-Lee pioneered Uniform Resource Locator (URL). The system used in addressing the web pages.
iii) Tim Berners-Lee pioneered Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). It is used to create web pages.
a) i), ii) and iii) are true
b) Only i) is true
c) Only ii) and ii) are true
d) All are false
Ans: a) i), ii) and iii) are true
(Imp Fact)
Tim Berners-Lee for his contribution in internet received numerous awards including Turing Award and Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for the development of internet.
Q.11: Who designed the logo of World Wide Web (www)?
a) Robert Gailliau b) Tim Berners-Lee c) Jim Clark d) Stephen Fry
Ans: a) Robert Gailliau
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