Wednesday 15 June 2011

NMA- blog 3

general net knowledge


HTML
What does it stand for?- Hypertext Markup Language
Where is it used?- Building block for web pages.
When was the first HTML language widely used?- 1980 by Tim Berners-Lee
What version of HTML does Wordpress use?- xhtm1 1.0

Write the HTML code for inserting a picture?-

<img src="url" alt="some_text"/>
log
What is the term ‘blog’ it short for?- stands for web log
When/where/why were the first blogs used? How did they originate?- It originated from online diaries in 1994.

URL & Domains
What does the term ‘URL’ mean? What does ‘domain’ mean?- Uniform resource locator
When did the standardized URLs come into function? The Uniform Resource Locator was created in 1994

WWW & the ‘net’
What do these terms stand for? WWW- world wide web & the ‘net’ refers to the internet; .NET is the brand name for a set of proprietary Microsoft frameworks and technologies founded on XML web services standards.
When did the internet first become widely available to the general public? It is generally agreed that the Internet broke into the public's consciousness in the United States in the mid-late 1990s, The Internet became popular on December 1, 1996

Search engines
What is the most used/most popular search engine in the world – right now? What are the statistics?
Search Engine  Total Avg  Dec '10  Jan '11 Feb '11  Mar '11 Apr '11 May '11
Google 78.48%78.27%77.41%79.65%78.37%78.84%78.51%
Bing 9.26%8.99%9.91%8.69%9.40%9.07%9.45%
Yahoo 9.14%9.32%9.67%8.52%9.11%9.08%9.06%
Ask 1.72%1.98%1.54%1.68%1.68%1.71%1.74%
AOL 1.38%1.43%1.45%1.44%1.42%1.29%1.22%
Other 0.02%0.02%0.02%0.02%0.02%0.01%0.01%
These were the statistics taken from start owl statistics website. 

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