23-12-2017, 04:24 PM
Web browser
*Web browser : It is a software application to retrieve and view information over world wide web.
*The browser, Internet explorer was introduced in 1995 by Microsoft.
*Web browser developed by Google
Ans : Google Chrome
*Important web browsers are
•Mozilla Firefox
•Opera
•Google chrome
•Safari
•Epic
*Example of mobile browsers
•Android •Black berry
•Dolphin •UC browser
*The process of visiting a number of websites in rapid succession is called
Ans : Surfing
*The first web browser
Ans : Nexus
*Nexus was Invented by
Ans : Tim Berners Lee (1990)
*Fastest web browser
Ans : Safari
*Safari browser was developed by Apple and released in January 2003.
*First web browser developed, in India
Ans : Epic
*Epic was developed by the company
Ans : Hidden Reflex (Bengaluru)
*Epic was released on 29th August 2013
*Epic is available in 13 Indian Languages and the foreign languages such as Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Greek.
Search Engine
*Search Engine is a software that is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web.
*First Search Engine in the internet
Ans : Archie (1990)
*Archie was created by
Ans : Alan Emtage, Bill Heelan,J. Peter Deutsch
*Important Search engines are
-Yahoo
-Bing
-Ask.com
* Search engine which is launched by DEITY (Department , of Electronics and Information Technology) to search tourism related queries Sandhan
*Bing search engine was developed by Microsoft.
Social Networking
Social Networking Sites
*Social networking service is web based platform to build social network among people haying same interests, activities and backgrounds.
*Some of the popular social networking sites are Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, Google Plus, Linked In, My space, Meet me, Skype
*Facebook was started in the year
Ans : 2004
*Founder of Facebook
Ans : Mark Zuckerberg
*Which social media on 18th April, 2015 unveiled a new music app called # Music
(a) Facebook (b) Twitter
(c ) YouTube (d) Stumble Upon
Ans : (b) Twitter
*Blog is a discussion or international site published on world wide web
*Social network service which is known as SMS in the world of Internet - Twitter
*The word Blog is the short form of Web Log
*The word web log was coined by
Ans : John Barger (1997)
*The word ‘Blog’ was first used by
Ans : Peter merholz
*Messages posted in the twitter are called
Ans : tweets
*Information that written in a blog is called Posts
*The social networking site Orkut was owned by
Ans : Google
