Test yourself - How much of a "techie" are you?

Match the words in the left column with definitions in the right column. Check via Google for the right answers and count the score (1 right answer scores one point)

Scores:

0 - 3 = not much of a "techie"!

4 - 6 = on the way to being a "techie"!

7 - 9 = quite a "techie"!

10 = the full "techie"! Well done!

Some other notions you need to go Google for (some of them have become obsolete already!):

UNIT 8 The WEB

Warm up

Read the quotes and say if you agree/disagree or like/dislike the saying and why:

First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.” ~Douglas Adams

When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the World Wide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page.” ~ Bill Clinton, 1996

We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.” ~ Robert Wilensky, 1996

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.” ~ William Gibson

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Watch and Listen

Record 8a

Watch the movie“World Wide Web in Plain English” which introduces the system that makes up the world wide web, including explanations of browsers, code packets, servers and links.

Make notes to report in class about:

● Where the information that appears on the screen "lives"

● How the browser acts as a translator of packets

● How servers are connected to create a web

● How links connect computers to unique addresses

Write down the script of the movie.

Extend your Knowledge

Date: 2015-12-24; view: 1164