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   W eb browser is the "window to the web" for Internet users around the world. It is a program that enables a user to display and interact with text, images, sound and other information located on a web page of a web site on the World Wide Web. It enables a user to quickly and easily access information provided on the web pages of the web sites by traversing hyperlinks. The two most popular browser are Internet Explorer by Microsoft and Navigator from Netscape. These browsers are used mainly by Windows based computers. Mosaic was a popular browser used by Macintosh users but today the Mac users use the Microsoft Internet Explorer as their default browser. Web Browser History The first widely used web browser was NCSA Mosaic. The Mosaic programming team then created the first commercial web browser called Netscape Navigator, later renamed Communicator, then renamed back to just Netscape. The Netscape browser led in user share until Microsoft Internet Explorer took the lead i...

 a. The unique address of a webpage on the internet is called          i. URL                    ii. Browser          iii. Protocol          iv. HTTP               ans: URL b. Which is the protocol used in internet?          i. TCP/IP                    ii. FTP         iii. ICP                         iv. ISP                         ans: TCP/IP c. Which one of the following is internet service?          i. Chat                    ii. E-commer...

         a. Internet is also known as network of Network          b. Mozilla Firefox is an application program.          c. Instant Messaging is an online textual communication with each other in real time.          d. FTP is a protocol used to upload and download information.          e. The process of copying and storing data, files, programs, etc. from Internet server to user's               computer is known as downloading.