номер 3, страница 53 - гдз по английскому языку 6 класс учебник Wetz, Pye

3 Read the text again and answer the questions.

1 What was the first name for the internet?

2 Who used the internet in the early days?

3 What did Ray Tomlinson do?

4 Why did Tim Berners-Lee use the symbol 'ch' in his website address?

5 Why did universities create search engines?

The internet

Where do you look for information, play games, watch videos, download e-books and buy music? What do you use to write emails or chat to friends on websites like Facebook or MySpace? More than 💿1.5 billion people do these things on the internet every day. Today, the internet is all over the world, but fifty years ago it did not exist.

The internet started in 1969 in the USA. It was called ARPANET at first, but its name soon changed to 'the internet'. Universities used it to communicate ideas and information. In those days, computers were enormous machines and not many people used them.

This began to change in 1971 when Ray Tomlinson, an American engineer, sent the first email message. He chose the symbol @ on his keyboard to identify his email address.

The internet didn't become really popular until Tim Berners-Lee, an English scientist, invented the World Wide Web in 1989.

His invention was very important because it became possible to do a lot more things on the internet like listening to music and watching videos. He created the first website and named it info.cern.ch. He used the symbol 'ch' for Switzerland because he worked in Geneva.

After that, people created millions of websites on every topic. At first, it wasn't easy to find information, so in the early 1990s many universities developed search engines. Lycos was one of the first of these and later, Yahoo! and Google became very popular.

Today you don't need a big computer to go on the internet. You can use a smartphone or a laptop with a Wi-Fi connection. Internet technology is changing all the time and it is changing our lives.

1. Какое было первое название интернета?

Ответ: The first name for the internet was ARPANET. / Первым названием интернета было ARPANET.

2. Кто пользовался интернетом вначале?

Ответ: Universities used the internet in the early days. / Вначале интернетом пользовались университеты.

3. Что сделал Рэй Томлинсон?

Ответ: He sent the first email message and chose the symbol @ for email addresses. / Он отправил первое электронное письмо и выбрал символ @ для адресов электронной почты.

4. Почему Тим Бернерс-Ли использовал символ 'ch' в адресе своего сайта?

Ответ: He used the symbol 'ch' for Switzerland because he worked in Geneva. / Он использовал символ 'ch' для Швейцарии, потому что работал в Женеве.

5. Почему университеты создали поисковые системы?

Ответ: Universities created search engines because it wasn't easy to find information. / Университеты создали поисковые системы, потому что было нелегко находить информацию.