Internet Trivias

1. Who coined the phrase 'World Wide Web'?

Tim Berners-Lee in 1990. He's also considered by most people as the person who started the whole thing rolling.

2. How did the Internet Start and Why?

It all started with the time-sharing of IBM computers in the early 1960s at universities such as Dartmouth and Berkeley in the States. People would share the same computer for their computing tasks. The Internet also received help from Sputnik! After this Russian Satellite was launched in 1957, President Eisenhower formed ARPA to advance computer networking and communication.

3. Who was J.C.R. Licklider?

Licklider is often referred to as the father of the Internet because his ideas of interactive computing and a "Galactic Network" were the seeds for the Internet. His ideas would be developed thru DARPA,(Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) in 1962. Later he would help form ARPANET and the Internet was on it's way.

4. What was ARPANET?

ARPANET stands for 'Advanced Research Projects Agency Network' Came about in the arena of Sputnik and the cold war. The militaryneeded a method of communicating and sharing all the information on computers for research and development. It would also be a handy communication system if all traditional ways were wiped out in a nuclear attack!

5. What was the First long distance Connection?

In 1965 using a low speed dial-up telephone line, MIT researcher Lawrence G. Roberts working with Thomas Merrill, connected the TX-2 computer in Massachusetts to the Q-32 in California. The phone lines weren't quite up to the task!

6. When was the first mouse introduced?

The first computer mouse was introduced in 1968 by Douglas Engelbart at the Fall Joint Computer Expo in San Francisco.

7. Country with the highest percentage of net users?

Sweden at 75%.

Losing Your Temper....

It's really painful when our friends or colleagues at business places shout at us for unnecessary reasons. Its mainly due to the fact that people who lose their temper feel that they are not being respected or their opinion is being flatly brushed aside. Among friends, one starts shouting at other because the other dint listen to his orders or did something he wanted. This often occurs when one of the friends is so dominating over others. Many think that showing a dominating character is a "virtue", but the truth is that it may land them into a land of troubles. Peers don't respect them and also their opinions and move with them for the sake of that association that they had with those short tempered people.

The general principle is that, try to respect the other person's needs and wishes and behave accordingly. True friendship lies in sacrificing at times our own wishes and trying to get the wishes of our friends' satisfied. We must be able to observe our friends' behaviour and be able to identify the way they adjust with us even though we are so rude at them and do something that is not desirable to them. When our friends are ready to bend their wishes for us, then it becomes a duty for us to reciprocate atleast some amount of this kind hearted behaviour if not fully.

Do not burst at your friends since because they say something against your opinion. Take time to analyze whats that so good in their view that it makes your's a little lower in grade. If you still feel your's is still better, then try to convince your friend politely by highlighting the inherent good qualitites of your idea. Even at work places, do not dominate or over power your team mates with your solutions. Ask your team members for their views and try to incorporate your proposals along with theirs. Be it friends or colleagues, respect to human stands tall amongst all vital characters for human beings.