Internet and World Wide Web – UGC NET Question

Statements A, B and D provide accurate descriptions of core Internet and Web concepts. The Internet is indeed a global network infrastructure, and the World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext resources that ride on top of the Internet. URLs serve as unique addresses for locating resources on the Web. Statement C is wrong because a web browser is software, not hardware, and it does not provide the physical connection to the Internet, so the correct set of true statements is A, B and D only.

Option A:
Option A is incorrect because it includes statements A and B but omits statement D. While A and B are correctly identified as true, the role of URLs as web addresses in statement D is also a correct concept. Since all three statements A, B and D are true, restricting the answer to A and B only makes this option incomplete.

Option B:
Option B is incorrect because it lists only B and D as true statements. Although statements B and D are correct, statement A correctly explains the nature of the Internet as a global network. Excluding A fails to capture the full set of correct statements required by the question.

Option C:
Option C is correct because it groups statements A, B and D, all of which are accurate. Together they distinguish the Internet as the underlying network, the Web as a hypertext service on that network, and URLs as the addressing system used on the Web. Statement C is rightly excluded because it wrongly describes a web browser as hardware rather than software.

Option D:
Option D is incorrect because it includes statement C along with A and D. While A and D are true, statement C is false since a web browser is software that runs on a computer to access web pages, not a hardware device for network connection. By combining a false statement with true ones, this option fails to meet the requirement of containing only correct statements.