WEB BROWSER

Web browser are defined as the application software that retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. The primary function  of the web browser is bring information to the user. Today, many web browser are introduced by the innovator and each of the web browser have it different functionality to satisfy the consumer. However,  Browsers which include additional components to support e-mail, Usenet news, and Internet Relay Chat (IRC), are sometimes referred to as "Internet suites" rather than merely "web browsers". Typically, all major browser are allow user to open the web browser either in different browser windows or in different tabs of the same window.


User interface
Most major web browsers have these user interface elements in common:

• Back and forward buttons to go back to the previous resource and forward again.
• A  history list, showing resources previously visited in a list (typically, the list is not visible all the time and has to be summoned)
• A refresh or reload button to reload the current resource.
• A stop button to cancel loading the resource. In some browsers, the stop button is merged with the reload button.
• A home button to return to the user's home page
• An address bar to input the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) of the desired resource and display it.
• A search bar to input terms into a search engine
• A status bar to display progress in loading the resource and also the URI of links when the cursor hovers over them, and pagr zooming capability.

Major browsers also possess incremental find features to search within a web page

Finally, a study is done by the wikipedia of the usage of the web browser in jan 2011

Source:www.wikipedia.org

The history of the internet

Today, everyone of us are enjoying use the internet but did you know when the internet came from and what ideas make the changes of the internet?so, today, let us recall back the memory of the internet

The idea of the internet came from the use of telegraph system in the 19th century. The concept of data communication that transmitting data between two different places, connected via some kind of electromagnetic medium, such as radio or an electrical wire make up of the idea of the internet. So, some of the research are started to prove this evidence. These research efforts included those of the laboratories of Vinton G. Cerf at Stanford University, Donald Davies (NPL), Paul Baran (RAND Corporation), and Leonard Kleinrock at MIT and at UCLA. These research had come to a solution at late 1960s and 1970s, including ARPANET, Telenet, and the X.25 protocols.

After that, the Internet's expansion for popular use in the 1990s, the Internet has had a drastic impact on culture and commerce. This includes the rise of near instant communication by electronic mail (e-mail), text based discussion forums, and the World Wide Web. Investor speculation in new markets provided by these innovations would also lead to the inflation and subsequent collapse of the Dot-com bubble. But despite this, the Internet continues to grow, driven by commerce, greater amounts of online information and knowledge and social networking known as Web 2.0.

Reference:www.wikipedia.org
For more information, search the history of internet in wikipedia

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