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#1 2006-03-20 20:51:11
- Jai Ganesh
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Test for 'Netizens'
Test for Netizens
1. What are 'cookies' and applets'?
2. In which year was the Internet born?
3. What do ISP, IP, http, FTP and URL stand for?
4. What do the following mean in IRC (Internet Relay Chat)?
BRB, ASAP, LOL, BTW
5. Name three different web browsers.
6. What is gopher?
7. What is a firewall? What are proxies?
8. What do WAP and WML stand for?
9. Name three different search engines.
10. What are Eudora and Netscape?
11. What do JPEG, GIF and PDF stand for?
12. What is PHP?
13. What are 'meta tags'?
14. What are Bridges, Routers, and Gateways?
15. What is a bookmark?
You may find most of the answers here.
It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.
Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.
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#2 2006-03-21 02:56:58
- Ricky
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Re: Test for 'Netizens'
"In the real world, this would be a problem. But in mathematics, we can just define a place where this problem doesn't exist. So we'll go ahead and do that now..."
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#3 2006-03-21 03:24:02
- Jai Ganesh
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Re: Test for 'Netizens'
Excellent, Ricky, almost all your answers are correct!
It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.
Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.
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#4 2006-03-21 09:33:10
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Re: Test for 'Netizens'
PHP is the language used by, for example, this forum. Just look at the address of this page (http://www.mathsisfun.com/forum/viewtopic.php...) and you will see ".php"
It has become one of the most common languages used for dynamic content on the internet, but originally it had very humble beginnings, because the letters PHP once stood for "Personal Home Page (Tools)" !
"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..." - Leon M. Lederman
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#5 2006-03-21 09:44:42
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Re: Test for 'Netizens'
One thing I find hilarious is that PHP now stands for:
PHP Hypertext Preprocessor
The 'P' in "PHP" stands for "PHP".
"In the real world, this would be a problem. But in mathematics, we can just define a place where this problem doesn't exist. So we'll go ahead and do that now..."
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#6 2006-03-21 09:47:54
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Yes! Which itself stands for PHP Hypertext Preprocessor, ... 
"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..." - Leon M. Lederman
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#7 2006-03-21 09:58:22
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Re: Test for 'Netizens'
El que pega primero pega dos veces.
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#8 2006-03-21 13:14:15
- Jai Ganesh
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Re: Test for 'Netizens'
Excellent, Ryos! My answer to the question regarding birth of the Internet would be 1969 AD (ARPANET). Coz' I was born that year 
It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.
Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.
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