The World Wide Web was invented by:
- A.Tim Berners-Lee
- B.Ray Tomlinson
- C.Charles Babbage
- D.Vint Cerf
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, Tim Berners-Lee. Working at the CERN laboratory in 1989, Berners-Lee proposed a system of linked documents and wrote the first web browser and server, giving the world HTML, HTTP and the address form known as the URL. Option B is wrong because Ray Tomlinson is credited with electronic mail in its modern form and with the use of the at sign to separate the user from the host. Option C is wrong because Charles Babbage designed the difference engine and the analytical engine in the nineteenth century and is called the father of the computer, long before any network existed. Option D is wrong because Vint Cerf, with Bob Kahn, designed the TCP and IP protocols that carry data across the internet. The internet is the network itself; the web is one service running on it, and papers test that difference.
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- A.Conservation of electric charge
- B.Electric bulb
- C.X-Rays
- D.Thermodynamics
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- A.Robert Koch
- B.Louis Pasteur
- C.Edward Jenner
- D.Karl Landsteiner
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- A.Vitamin A - McCollum
- B.Vitamin B - McCollum
- C.Vitamin C - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
- D.Vitamin D - Paul Muller
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- A.Samuel Morse
- B.Alexander Graham Bell
- C.Guglielmo Marconi
- D.Thomas Alva Edison
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Read the full explanation →Dynamite, whose inventor endowed a set of international prizes, was invented by:
- A.Alfred Nobel
- B.Rudolf Diesel
- C.Michael Faraday
- D.James Watt
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The Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel patented dynamite in 1867, a safe way of handling nitroglycerine, and the fortune he made from explosives endowed the Nobel Prizes, first awarded in 1901.
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