PET Reading Part 4
There are three extra sentences which you do not need to use.
- Brief History of the Internet
More than 4.5 billion people around the world now use the Internet. You turn on a computer, type in a few words, and you’re connected to the Internet. You can listen to the Internet radio and play music files stored on your computer. You can also send email letters to friends. 1) Believe it or not, it all began in the United States more than 50 years ago as the government wanted to link some of its computers together. 2) Someone on one computer could get information from another.
Finally, in 1969 four computers were linked together to form the ARPANET, the very beginnings of the Internet. 3) Scientists joined in. So did businesses and colleges. Still, home computers weren’t part of the Internet yet. 4) People had to type in complicated commands, and they weren’t the same for all computers.
In 1991, the World Wide Web (WWW) was born. 5) In 1992, a new computer program was invented. The new program allowed people to click on images and words. Then almost anyone could use the Internet.
- A) Computers were added quickly to the network during the following years.
- B) At the time, computers were far from what we know them as today.
- C) That’s because it was too difficult to use.
- D) Don’t forget that PCs were still a way off at this point.
- E) Did you ever wonder how and when the Internet got started?
- F) It helped make the Internet easier to use.
- G) Different organizations were connected to different networks.
- H) That way, the computers could share information.
