Introduction of Internet

What is the Internet?

The Internet is a global network of interconnected computers that allows users to share and access information worldwide. It enables communication, browsing, online transactions, and data sharing across millions of devices.

History of the Internet

  • 1960s: Developed by the U.S. Department of Defense as ARPANET.
  • 1980s: TCP/IP protocols were adopted, leading to wider use.
  • 1990s: The World Wide Web (WWW) was introduced by Tim Berners-Lee, making the internet accessible to the public.
  • Present: The internet is now used for social media, e-commerce, cloud computing, and more.

Key Components of the Internet

  • 1️⃣ Web Browsers – Software like Chrome, Firefox, and Edge used to access websites.
  • 2️⃣ Websites & Web Pages – Online resources stored on servers.
  • 3️⃣ Email Services – Platforms like Gmail and Outlook for digital communication.
  • 4️⃣ Search Engines – Google, Bing, and Yahoo help users find information.
  • 5️⃣ Cloud Computing – Online storage and services like Google Drive and Dropbox.
  • 6️⃣ Social Media – Platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for communication.

Uses of the Internet

  • ✅ Communication – Email, video calls, messaging apps.
  • ✅ Education – Online courses, research, e-books.
  • ✅ Entertainment – Streaming videos, online games, music.
  • ✅ E-Commerce – Shopping, online banking, digital transactions.
  • ✅ Social Networking – Connecting with people worldwide.
  • ✅ Work & Collaboration – Remote work, file sharing, cloud computing.

How to Access the Internet?

  • 📶 Wi-Fi & Mobile Data – Wireless connection via ISPs.
  • 🌐 Broadband & Fiber Optics – High-speed internet for homes and offices.
  • 📡 Satellite Internet – Used in remote areas.


Basic Terminology of the Internet 🌍

Here are some fundamental internet terms that everyone should know:


1. Internet & Web Basics

  • 🔹 Internet – A global network of interconnected computers for communication and data exchange.
  • 🔹 World Wide Web (WWW) – A collection of websites and web pages accessible through the internet.
  • 🔹 Website – A collection of web pages hosted on a server (e.g., www.google.com).
  • 🔹 Web Page – A single document on a website that may contain text, images, and links.
  • 🔹 URL (Uniform Resource Locator) – The address of a web page (e.g., https://www.example.com).
  • 🔹 HTTP/HTTPS – Protocols used for accessing websites (HTTPS is secure).
  • 🔹 Web Browser – Software used to access websites (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari).
  • 🔹 Search Engine – A tool to find information online (Google, Bing, Yahoo).


2. Networking & Connectivity

  • 🔹 ISP (Internet Service Provider) – A company that provides internet access (e.g., AT&T, Comcast).
  • 🔹 IP Address (Internet Protocol Address) – A unique numerical label assigned to each internet-connected device.
  • 🔹 DNS (Domain Name System) – Translates domain names into IP addresses.
  • 🔹 Wi-Fi – A wireless internet connection.
  • 🔹 Broadband – A high-speed internet connection.
  • 🔹 Bandwidth – The amount of data transmitted over a network per second.
  • 🔹 VPN (Virtual Private Network) – A secure network that protects online privacy.


3. Email & Communication

  • 🔹 Email (Electronic Mail) – A system for sending digital messages.
  • 🔹 Email Client – Software like Outlook, Thunderbird for managing emails.
  • 🔹 Spam – Unwanted or junk email.
  • 🔹 Phishing – A cyber-attack that tricks users into sharing personal data.


4. Online Safety & Security

  • 🔹 Firewall – A security system that monitors and controls network traffic.
  • 🔹 Malware – Malicious software such as viruses, worms, and trojans.
  • 🔹 Antivirus – Software that protects against malware.
  • 🔹 Encryption – The process of securing data by converting it into unreadable text.
  • 🔹 Cookies – Small files stored on a user’s computer by websites to track preferences.


5. Internet Services & Applications

  • 🔹 Cloud Computing – Storing and accessing data on the internet (Google Drive, Dropbox).
  • 🔹 Streaming – Watching videos or listening to music online without downloading (YouTube, Netflix).
  • 🔹 E-Commerce – Online shopping and transactions (Amazon, eBay).
  • 🔹 Social Media – Platforms for sharing content and communication (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter).
  • 🔹 Blog – A website where individuals share thoughts, articles, or updates.
  • 🔹 Podcast – Digital audio recordings available for streaming or download.
Qus. 1 : The way in which information is transmitted to multiple internet connected devices is called

  1. Internet connectivity
  2. IP address
  3. multicasting
  4. multitasking
Qus. 2 : Which of the following is not a search engine?

  1. Google
  2. Yahoo
  3. Twitter
  4. AltaVista
Qus. 3 : What is a spider?

  1. A computer virus
  2. A program that catalogs Web sites
  3. A hacker who breaks into computer systems
  4. An application for viewing web pages
Qus. 4 : Which of the following is a search engine?

  1. Twitter
  2. Facebook
  3. myspace
  4. google
Qus. 5 : https is a

  1. Scripting language
  2. Browser
  3. Secure connection
  4. Authoring tool
Qus. 6 : What is the internet explorer

  1. An icon
  2. A file manager
  3. A browser
  4. An Internet
Qus. 7 : What is the name of the location address of the hypertext documents?

  1. Uniform Resource Locator
  2. Web server
  3. File
  4. Web address
Qus. 8 : What is the abbreviation of WWW?

  1. Wide Web World
  2. Win World Web
  3. Web Wide World
  4. World Wide Web
Qus. 9 : Who send the requisition for web pages to the web servers?

  1. Node
  2. System
  3. Web clients
  4. Web customer
Qus. 10 : A series of specially designed documents, which are all liked to viewed on Internet is called:

  1. Word Wide Web
  2. Web server
  3. Search engine
  4. website
Qus. 11 : A browser is a:

  1. Line that delineates the edge of a programmer window
  2. Device used for modifying the window
  3. Software programme especially designed for viewing web pages on the Internet
  4. None of the above
Qus. 12 : Internet's initial development was supported by:

  1. Communication
  2. Information Retrieval
  3. Presentation of Information
  4. All of the above
Qus. 13 : What is the full form of TCP

  1. Transport Control Protocol
  2. Transaction Control Protocol
  3. Transmission Control Protocol
  4. Transmission Control Point
Qus. 14 : A network of Network is known as

  1. Local Area Network
  2. Internet
  3. Intranet
  4. Big Network
Qus. 15 : What is Full form of ARPANET

  1. Advance Recent Project Administration Network
  2. Advance Research Project Agency Network
  3. Advance Real Project Administration Network
  4. Advance Research Point Admin Network
Qus. 16 : What is full form of URL

  1. Uniform Resource Locator
  2. Unique Resource Locator
  3. Uniform Resource Location
  4. Under Resource Locator
Qus. 17 : ISP Stands for?

  1. Internet Service Provider
  2. Intranet Service Provider
  3. Internet Social Public
  4. Internet Server Provider
Qus. 18 : Cookie stores the data on

  1. Server
  2. Remote Server
  3. Browser
  4. All of These
Qus. 19 : FTP stans for?

  1. File Transaction Protocol
  2. File Transfer Protocol
  3. File Task Protocol
  4. Fast Transfer Protocol
Qus. 20 : Which of the following is used to read a HTML page and render it ?

  1. Web browser
  2. Web server
  3. Web matrix
  4. Web network
Qus. 21 : Which program is used by web clients to view the web pages?

  1. Web browser
  2. Protocol
  3. Web Server
  4. Search engines
Qus. 22 : Which of the following is required for joining the internet?

  1. Internet architecture board
  2. Internet Society
  3. Internet Service Provider
  4. Different Computer
Qus. 23 : Which of the following is an example of a search engine on the internet?

  1. MS Office
  2. Google
  3. Gmail
  4. Windows
Qus. 24 : Which of the following is not a browser?

  1. Microsoft Edge
  2. Google Meet
  3. Mozilla Firefox
  4. Google Chrome
Qus. 25 : The internet originated from the concept of

  1. Microsoft
  2. ARPANET
  3. Web
  4. IBM
Qus. 26 : Identify the wrong statements about Cookies

  1. Cookies are programs which run in the background of the web-client
  2. Cookies have the potential of being used to violate the privacy of users
  3. Cookies are very helpful in keeping track of users in developing online shopping cart, applications personalized portals and in advertising on websites
  4. Cookies cannot contain more than 4 Kb of data
Qus. 27 : _____ is known as Father of Word wide web.

  1. Tim Thompson
  2. Tim Berners-Lee
  3. Charles Darwin
  4. Robert Chilliau
Qus. 28 : Who invented www (World Wide Web)?

  1. Bill Gates
  2. Lee. N. Feyong
  3. Tim Berners Lee
  4. None of above
Qus. 29 : Which one is example of search engine

  1. Google
  2. Linux
  3. Windows
  4. Mozila
Qus. 30 : Chrome, Safari, Mozilla Firefox are example of

  1. Browser
  2. Search Engine
  3. Both Browser & Search Engine
  4. None of these
Qus. 31 : “Yahoo”, “Infoseek” and “Lycos” are _________?

  1. Search Engines
  2. News groups
  3. Browsers
  4. None of the above
Qus. 32 : What is a search engine?

  1. Program that search documents
  2. A program that searches engines for specified keywords
  3. A machinery engine that search data
  4. A hardware component
Qus. 33 : Who is making the Web standards?

  1. Mozilla
  2. Microsoft
  3. The World Wide Web Consortium
  4. NVDIA
Qus. 34 : Which of the following services are available on the World Wide Web?

  1. Encryption
  2. HTTP
  3. HTML
  4. Firewalls
Qus. 35 : <p>Match the following Internet terms with their descriptions.</p><table class="table table-bordered"><tbody><tr><td><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Term</b></span></td><td><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Description</b></span></td></tr><tr><td><span style="font-size: 14px;">A. IP Address</span></td><td><span style="font-size: 14px;">1. Translates domain names to IP addresses</span></td></tr><tr><td><span style="font-size: 14px;">B. DNS</span></td><td><span style="font-size: 14px;">2. Protocol used to transfer hypertext over the web</span></td></tr><tr><td><span style="font-size: 14px;">C. URL</span></td><td><span style="letter-spacing: 0.14px;">3. Unique identifier assigned to each device on a network</span></td></tr><tr><td><span style="font-size: 14px;">D. HTTP</span></td><td><span style="font-size: 14px;">4. Uniform Resource Locator used to specify addresses on the web</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br></p>

  1. A-1, B-2, C-3, D-4
  2. A-2, B-4, C-1, D-3
  3. A-3, B-1, C-4, D-2
  4. A-4, B-3, C-2, D-1
Qus. 36 : <p>Match the following Internet-related protocols with their purposes.</p><table class="table table-bordered"><tbody><tr><td><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Protocol</b></span></td><td><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Purpose</b></span></td></tr><tr><td><span style="font-size: 14px;">A. FTP</span></td><td><span style="font-size: 14px;">1. Retrieves and manages emails stored on a mail server</span></td></tr><tr><td><span style="font-size: 14px;">B. SMTP</span></td><td><span style="font-size: 14px;">2. Secure version of HTTP used for encrypted communication</span></td></tr><tr><td><span style="font-size: 14px;">C. IMAP</span></td><td><span style="font-size: 14px;">3. Sends emails across the Internet</span></td></tr><tr><td><span style="font-size: 14px;">D. HTTPS</span></td><td><span style="font-size: 14px;">4. Transfers files between computers over the Internet</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br></p>

  1. A-1, B-2, C-3, D-4
  2. A-4, B-3, C-1, D-2
  3. A-3, B-4, C-2, D-1
  4. A-2, B-1, C-4, D-3
Qus. 37 : <p>Match the following Internet services with their descriptions.</p><table class="table table-bordered"><tbody><tr><td><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Service</b></span></td><td><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Description</b></span></td></tr><tr><td><span style="font-size: 14px;">A. WWW</span></td><td><span style="font-size: 14px;">1. Technology that enables voice communication over the Internet</span></td></tr><tr><td><span style="font-size: 14px;">B. Email</span></td><td><span style="font-size: 14px;">2. On-demand availability of computing resources over the Internet</span></td></tr><tr><td><span style="font-size: 14px;">C. VoIP</span></td><td><span style="font-size: 14px;">3. Electronic messaging system</span></td></tr><tr><td><span style="font-size: 14px;">D. Cloud Computing</span></td><td><span style="font-size: 14px;">4. Collection of interlinked hypertext documents accessible on the Internet</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br></p>

  1. A-1, B-2, C-3, D-4
  2. A-4, B-3, C-1, D-2
  3. A-3, B-4, C-2, D-1
  4. A-2, B-1, C-4, D-3
Qus. 38 : <p>Match the following Internet-related terminologies with their functions.</p><table class="table table-bordered"><tbody><tr><td><span style="font-size: 14px;">Terminology</span></td><td><span style="font-size: 14px;">Function</span></td></tr><tr><td><span style="font-size: 14px;">A. Router</span></td><td><span style="font-size: 14px;">1. Converts digital data into signals for transmission over telephone lines</span></td></tr><tr><td><span style="font-size: 14px;">B. Modem</span></td><td><span style="font-size: 14px;">2. Directs data packets between networks</span></td></tr><tr><td><span style="font-size: 14px;">C. Firewall</span></td><td><span style="font-size: 14px;">3. Provides Internet connectivity to end-users</span></td></tr><tr><td><span style="font-size: 14px;">D. ISP</span></td><td><span style="font-size: 14px;">4. Secures a network by monitoring and controlling incoming/outgoing traffic</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br></p>

  1. A-1, B-2, C-3, D-4
  2. A-4, B-3, C-1, D-2
  3. A-3, B-4, C-2, D-1
  4. A-2, B-1, C-4, D-3

Programs

Latest Current Affairs 2025 Online Exam Quiz for One day Exam Online Typing Test CCC Online Test Python Programming Tutorials Best Computer Training Institute in Prayagraj (Allahabad) Online MBA 2 years Online MCA Online BCA Best Website and Software Company in Allahabad