57. In what ways is the World Wide Web different from other servers on the Internet?
Answer: The World Wide Web is an Internet system i.e., a set of programs, standards, and protocols that allows the multimedia files to be created, displayed, and linked on the Internet.
Before WWW, the Internet was mainly used for obtaining textual information. The other servers on Internet: ftp, gopher, mail, news, etc. cater to textual information but WWW, which uses http server, caters to multimedia information. Thus, it enables the users to receive hypertext i.e., multimedia information on their web browsers.
58. The following sentence describes the term Uniform Resource Locator (URL) used on the Internet.
URL is the ___1___ name corresponding to the ___2___ address of a computer on the Internet. URL is the ___3___ of a resource on the Internet. URL must be ___4___ . Internet users access your ___5___ using your URL. An example of a URL is ___6___ .
Fill in the blanks with words from the list below. (A word can only be used once).
unique, numeric IP, website, text, personal, account, www.abc.com, web address, abc.com, server
Answer: 1. text , 2. numeric IP, web address, 4. unique 5. website 6. www.abc.com
59. Sharman Joshi is a student of Political Science and is a keen researcher of Political issues related to various countries and states. He wants to share his research and his own opinion on these issues on a day-to-day basis with everyone on World Wide Web. He is also interested in collecting views of others to enhance his research and knowledge related to his area of interest. He belongs to a middle-class family and can’t afford his own website. Also being a non-technical person he can’t create a dynamic website to deal with day-to-day inputs.
(a) Suggest an easy way for Shravan to achieve the same.
(b) Also name two popularly used free services that can help Shravan in this regard.
Answer:
(a) Shravan should develop a blog or microblog.
(b) Google Blogger and Twitter
60. A school has two separate computer networks. One is used for keeping pupil and staff records. The other is for pupils to use in lessons to help with their learning and also to store their work.
Pupils use the Internet quite frequently in their lessons to help them with their work. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this as far as a pupil is concerned.
Answer: Advantages
(i) Latest Information available
(ii) Easier to produce neatly presented work
(iii) Speed of search only if referring to use of search engine
(iv) Internet has vast amounts of information
Disadvantages
(i) Danger of accessing doubtful websites.
(ii) Can take a long time to find the required information
(iii) Can access biased websites
(iv) Can access inaccurate websites
(v) Lack of expertise leads to inefficient searching (vi) Can get easily distracted
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By Anjeev Kr Singh – Computer Science Educator
Published on : January 21, 2022 | Updated on : November 2, 2022
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