UGC NET Questions (Paper – 1)

The World Wide Web is a collection of interlinked documents and resources identified by URLs and accessed over the internet using HTTP. Web browsers render these resources so that users can navigate across pages through hyperlinks. While it runs on top of the internet, it is distinct from other services such as email or file transfer. Therefore, the system of linked documents described in the stem is the World Wide Web.

Option A:
Option A, file transfer service, refers specifically to mechanisms like FTP that move files between machines but do not describe a hyperlinked document system.

Option B:
Option B is correct because standard ICT teaching defines the Web exactly as a system of interlinked hypertext documents delivered through browsers using HTTP. The notion of hyperlinks and documents in the stem corresponds directly to this definition.

Option C:
Option C, e-mail, is an electronic messaging service and does not organise information primarily as interlinked pages.

Option D:
Option D, remote login, involves accessing another computer's command line or desktop over a network and is not a hypertext-based document system.