Tag: science & technology

Udaya Kumar, an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) postgraduate, created the winning design for the Indian rupee symbol in 2010. His design combined the Devanagari 'Ra' with the Roman 'R'.

Udaya Kumar, the designer of the rupee symbol, comes from Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He was an academic and design professional at the time of the competition.

The designer of the rupee symbol received ₹2.5 lakh as prize money for winning the national competition. This was the announced award for the selected design.

The Indian Union Cabinet officially approved the adoption of the new rupee symbol in 2010. This was the final governmental step before the symbol could be used officially.

Several countries use variations of the rupee as their official currency, including Nepal, Sri Lanka, Indonesia (rupiah), and Pakistan. These countries share historical currency ties to the Indian subcontinent.

Mozilla Firefox has always been free and open-source, making it the most consistently free browser among the options. Netscape Navigator was free only for non-commercial use, while Internet Explorer was bundled with Windows but not standalone free. The term 'free internet browser' refers to browsers available at no cost to users.

Yahoo! indeed stands for 'Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle'. The name was coined by founders Jerry Yang and David Filo in 1994, reflecting its early purpose as a hierarchical directory of web pages. This well-known expansion is a classic piece of internet trivia.

Archie (1990) is widely recognized as the first internet search engine, created by Alan Emtage at McGill University. It predated the World Wide Web and searched FTP archives. ARPANET was the network itself, not a search engine, while Internet Explorer and Bing came much later.