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Modern Life and the Internet.

The Internet is a huge network of computers spanning this planet and is now started to bring in the surrounding area like space. Some computers like servers share data, others just surf the web as clients downloading the data. Public Internet be­gan in the late 70's. In the 70's web users used an interface called telnet, but now that program is mainly obsolete. Telnet is most widely deployed in accessing college e-mail accounts. 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. Everyone should have the Internet be­cause of its near instantaneous communication and huge wealth of knowledge. But how to go on the Internet and do a search for information we need. There are two ways to do it.

The first is when you know an internet address of data you need and the second one is when you try to find information you need by using a search program. In the beginning we have got to enter any browser you like. It could be an Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator or Opera, etc. If we have a broad­band connection, we connect to the Internet at once. If not, we have to set up and connect to our dial-up service. Finally, if we want to find some information in the Internet, we are to type an address of this data in the browser we use or simply use the existing search-programs such as the Google search program, rambler search program, yandex search program or yahoo search program. They are very simple and popular net­works of sites. In these programs we can just type the word or name of thing, we would like to find and then press enter. A search program solves this problem. We get our results in the same window. After we get our results, we simply choose wha­tever site best matches our query or keep searching.

Besides data, one can get from the Internet; we can also send and receive e-mail or electronic mail. This internet ser­vice is cheaper than ordinary mail and much quicker. It is be­coming popular day by day. We can get some news from the Internet, because there are many informational servers in the web.

2. Mind the following words and word-combination:

huge — великий, гігантський, величезний

network — мережа

to span — обхоплювати, охоплювати

surrounding — навколишній

to share — поділяти, розподіляти; розділяти

data — мн. від datum; дані, факти, відомості; інформація

to surf — тут знаходитися в мережі

to download — завантажувати, пересилати (по лінії зв'язку)

interface — інтерфейс, адаптер

obsolete — непотрібний, який вийшов із ужитку; старий

to deploy — використовувати, уживати; розгортати

email accounts — облікові записи електронної пошти

quantum mechanics — квантова механіка

instantaneous — миттєвий; негайний browser — обч. броузер, браузер, вікно перегляду; про­грама перегляду

broadband connection — виділене підключення

dial-up — вилучений доступ до мережі

to type — друкувати, надрукувати

search-program — програма-розвідник

site — сайт

to solve — вирішувати, дозволяти; знаходити вихід

to match — підходити, відповідати

query — запит, питання

to provide — постачати: доставляти; забезпечувати

3. Answer the following questions:

1. What is the Internet?

2. What are servers?

3. When did public Internet appear?

4. What was the most popular mail interface used in 70s?

5. What kind of browsers do you know?

6. How can we find information in the Internet?

7. Is it cheaper to use the Internet mail service instead of ordinary post office?

8. What search programs do you know?