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| The Internet is a network of millions of computers linked together all over the world. |
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| In 1957 the USSR launched their first Satellite, the Sputnik. And we have to get back to 1957 to get the origin of the Internet. |
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| Why did the U.S.A. create the “A.R.P.A.”? |
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The U.S.A. created the A.R.P.A. in response to the Sputnik launch in order to apply technology to U.S defence and to avoid being surprised by technological advances of the enemy. |
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| Why didn’t the Ministry of Defence link computers together in a straight line? |
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| The Ministry of Defence didn’t link computers together in a straight line because they thought that in such a way in the event of a nuclear attack on the U.S. it was unlikely the entire system would be damaged. |
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| How is the world of computers also called? |
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| The world of computers is also called “cyberspace”, a term coined by William Gibson in his fantasy novel “Neuromancer” written in 1984. |
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| What does the acronym W.W.W. mean? And what is it? |
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| The acronym WWW means “World Wide Web” and it is only a component of the Internet that presents information in a graphical interface. |
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| The WWW was created by the physicist Dr Berners-Lee in the late 1980’s |
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What does ‘netiquette’ mean? |
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| “Netiquette” is a new world and it means “good behaviour in the cyberspace”. |
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| What should we know to be a good ‘netizen’? What does ‘netizen’ mean?” |
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| Netiquette” means that when we enter the world of the Internet, we have to respect some rules to be a good ‘netizen’ which means “good citizen of the cyberspace”. These rules were proposed by the writer Virginia Shea in her book called “Netiquette”, written in 1994. |
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Explain the following words (give an explanation, NOT N a translation into Italian)”: Email – Access number – Chat – Download – Freeware – Homepage
Newbie – Search engine. |
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Email: it is the short form for “Electronic mail”. It is the tool which allows a computer to send messages to other computers around the world.
Access number: it is a telephone number that lets the computer to Communicate with an online service.
Chat: it is a live communication over the Internecommunication in real time
Download: it means that we can move files from one computer to another.
Freeware: it is referred to a software which is available for no cost.
Homepage: it is the initial page of a web site.
Newbie: it is the name given to a new Internet user (“user” significa “utente”)
Search engine: it is the tool used to search for information on the Internet. |
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