Internet and Web Technology Quiz

The traditional four basic tastes are salt, sweet, sour, and bitter. Modern research has added 'umami' (savory) as a fifth basic taste, but traditionally and for most exam purposes, four tastes are considered correct.

Human fingers themselves contain no muscles - they are moved by muscles in the forearm and palm via tendons. The fingers contain only bones, ligaments, tendons, skin, and nerves, but no actual muscle tissue.

Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes, for a total of 46 chromosomes. This includes 22 pairs of autosomes and 1 pair of sex chromosomes (XX in females, XY in males). Each pair contains one chromosome from each parent.

The hyoid bone, located in the neck, is the only bone in the human body not directly attached to any other bone. It is suspended by ligaments and muscles, enabling crucial functions like swallowing and speech production.

The tongue is the only muscle in the human body attached at only one end (to the hyoid bone). This unique attachment allows for its remarkable flexibility and wide range of motion needed for speech, swallowing, and food manipulation.

WWW stands for World Wide Web, the global system of interconnected documents and resources accessed through the internet. It was invented by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1989 and revolutionized information sharing.

Amazon started as an online bookstore in 1995, with books being their first and primary product. Founder Jeff Bezos chose books because of the vast selection available and the ease of shipping this media format.

Ray Tomlinson sent the first email in 1971 on the ARPANET system, introducing the '@' symbol format for email addresses we still use today. Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft later, while Sachin Tendulkar is a cricket legend unrelated to email technology.

Satyam Online became India's first private ISP in 1998, before the entry of major telecom players like Reliance and Tata in the internet service market. TCS is primarily an IT services company, not focused on consumer internet access.

Darcy DiNucci first used the term 'Web 2.0' in a 1999 article, though Tim O'Reilly later popularized it through his Web 2.0 Conference. Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, and Paul Graham is a programmer/investor unrelated to Web 2.0 terminology.

IEEE 802.3 is the standard working group that defines Ethernet, the most widely used local area networking technology. Broadband, fiber optic, and Bluetooth are separate networking technologies with their own IEEE standards or specifications.

PageRank is Google's core algorithm that ranks web pages based on link analysis, named after Larry Page. It revolutionized search by measuring page importance through the quantity and quality of links pointing to it.

Symbolics.com was the first registered domain name on March 15, 1985, by a computer systems company. Google and Hotmail were founded much later, while IBM registered their domain after Symbolics.

The first website was info.cern.ch, published by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1991. Hotmail, Wikipedia, and IBM came years later - the web was invented at CERN, not by these companies.

ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) was the precursor to the modern internet, developed by the US Department of Defense. It established the foundational networking protocols that evolved into today's global internet.

Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989 at CERN. He developed the first web browser, web server, and the fundamental protocols (HTTP, HTML) that power the internet today. Steve Jobs founded Apple, Narayan Murthy co-founded Infosys, and Marc Andersen co-founded Netscape - none invented the WWW.

URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator, which is the address of a specific resource on the internet. It specifies the location of a resource on a computer network and the mechanism for retrieving it. The other options are fictional expansions that don't match the standard definition.

ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is the global non-profit organization responsible for coordinating internet domain names and IP addresses. CIA and RAW are intelligence agencies, and 'ISI' is not the correct organization name for this function.

In HTTPS, the 's' stands for 'secure' - it indicates the connection is encrypted using SSL/TLS protocols. While 'secured' or 'security' might seem logical, the standard abbreviation is simply 'secure'. 'Simple' is incorrect as HTTPS provides more security than HTTP.