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English is the official language of Nagaland, used for government and administrative purposes. While Nagamese (a creole of Assamese and Hindi) is widely spoken, and various indigenous languages like Ao, Konyak, and Angami are recognized, English remains the official state language.

According to Article 60 of the Indian Constitution, the Oath of Office to the President is administered by the Chief Justice of India. If the Chief Justice is not available, the senior-most Supreme Court judge performs this duty.

Ted Nelson coined the term 'hypertext' in the 1960s and conceptualized the idea of non-sequential text linking. Tim Berners-Lee later built upon this concept to create the World Wide Web, but Nelson is credited with the original hypertext concept.

Netscape Navigator, developed by Netscape Communications Corporation, was the first commercially successful web browser. It popularized the web in the mid-1990s before Internet Explorer's dominance, though Mosaic was the first popular browser.

Mosaic, developed at NCSA, was the first popular web browser that made the World Wide Web accessible to non-technical users. It featured a graphical interface and helped popularize the web in 1993, paving the way for Netscape.

DNS stands for Domain Name System, which translates human-readable domain names (like google.com) into machine-readable IP addresses (like 142.250.185.46). It's essentially the phonebook of the Internet.

Typical Internet packets are around 1 kilobyte (1,024 bytes) in size, though they can vary. This size balances efficiency (avoiding too much overhead) with reliability (not losing too much data if a packet is lost). The Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) is typically 1500 bytes.

Article 84(b) of the Indian Constitution prescribes 25 years as the minimum age for Lok Sabha membership. This is lower than the 30 years required for Rajya Sabha and 35 years for the President, reflecting the direct democratic nature of the Lower House.