The internet is the biggest source of information in the world, and it’s 1)__________ (access) through a computer. It consists 2)_________ millions of pages of data.
In 1969, DARPA, a US defence organization, 3)__________(develop) a way for all their computers to “talk” to each other 4)_____________ the telephone. They created a network of computers 5)___________ (call) DARPANET. For fifteen years, only the US army could use this system of communication. Then in 1984, the US National Science Foundation (NSF) started the NSFNET network. It then became possible for 6)________________ (university) to use the system as well. NSFNET became 7)____________ (know) as the Inter-Network, or “Internet”.
The World Wide Web (the web) is a computer network 8) _____________ allows computer users 9)____________ (access) information from millions of websites via the Internet. At the moment, about 80 percent of web traffic is in English, 10) _________ this 11)____________ (percent) is going down. By 2020, much web traffic could be in Chinese. The World Wide Web 12)____________ (invent) in 1991 by an English scientist, Tim Berners-Lee. Berners-Lee built his first computer while he was at university 13)__________ (use) an old television! He came up 14) ___________ the idea of the World Wide Web in 1989 while he was working in Switzerland.
Berners-Lee made 15)___________ possible for everyone to use the Internet, not just universities and the army. He designed the first “web browser”, 16) ________ allowed computer
users
to
access
documents
from
other
computers.
From
that
moment17)___________, the web and the Internet grew. Within five years, the number of Internet users 18) ____________(rise) from 600,000 to 40 million.
The Internet 19)__________(create) thousands of millionaires, but Berners-Lee is not one of them. Everyone in the world can access the Internet 20)___________(use) his World Wide Web system. He now works as a 21)____________ (lecture) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston.
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