Text Study

I. Pre-reading Exercises

1. Repeat the words in chorus:

Charge, governing, internet backbone, Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol, TCP/IP, quantum mechanics, instantane­ous, knowledge, broadband, withstanding, broadcasting, routers.

2. While reading the text you will come across a number of international words. Try to guess what Ukrainian words they remind of you:

Internet, million, organization, technical aspects, control, private company, client, architecture, machine, technology, program, result, e-mail, popular, information, problem, situation.

3. Pay attention to some grammatical points:

1) The Internet is a computer network made up of thousands of networks world wide. 2) Software can be installed on a client computer to take advantage of the latest access technology. 3) The Internet is very helpful, because it's a huge database of knowledge, from the pictures of family trips to an analysis of quantum mechanics. 4) Everyone should have the Internet because of it instantane­ous communication and huge wealth of knowledge. 5) If we want to find some information in the In­ternet, we are to type address of this data in the browser we use. 6) The data is constantly being directed towards its destination by special computers called routers.

II. Reading

Read the text and be ready to find in the text the answers to the following questions:

• How many computers are connected to the Internet?
• How do all computers on the Internet communicate with one another?
• What interface did web users use in the 70's?