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The InternetToday, almost every company in the world has got a website on the Internet. Each site has got a special name (a web address) and you use this to visit the site. In the early 1990s, before most companies had really thought about the Internet, people got web addresses with the names of famous companies – for example, Panasonic and Hertz. These people were not part of the companies; they were hoping to sell the web addresses to the companies for a lot of money one day in the future. This was called 'cyber-squatting'. Since 1999, new international laws have made cyber-squatting impossible. Internet users can be anywhere in the world; they just need a computer and a telephone. For this reason, it is often difficult to control what happens on the Internet. In January 1999, an American University student called Shawn Fanning invented a piece of software that could copy music. In May of the same year, he started a company called Napster. Internet users could visit Napster and copy their favourite music. Suddenly, they did not need to buy CDs. Of course, the music companies were not very happy about this. A lot of musicians were also unhappy, because people could get their music free. In the end, Napster agreed to pay money to the music companies and musicians. The Internet is not only important for business. It is also a cheap way to make contact with people from all over the world. A lot of people visit 'chat rooms': in a chat room, you can 'talk' to other Internet users and read their answers on your computer immediately. There is even a special kind of language which people use to save time. For example, they write 'HAND' to mean 'Have A Nice Day'; or they write “LOL” (laughing out loud) when they find something funny. There are also special ways to show feelings: for example, :-) means 'I'm happy', and :-( means 'I'm sad'. As computers become more powerful, the Internet becomes easier to use. Some people now do most of their shopping at websites. But there are still a lot of people who like to go into town and visit real shops. They want to look before they buy — and they prefer to talk to a person than to a computer. squat ñàìîâîëüíî ñåëèòüñÿ Ex.1 Put the following facts into the correct chronological order:
Ex.2 Put the following adjectives into necessary degree of comparison:
Ex.3 Choose the Present Perfect or Past Simple form and make up the sentences:
Ex.4 Explain the meanings of the following words:
website, web address, cyber-squatting, law, Napster, chat room, to sell, to control, to copy, to agree, to laugh, to prefer
Ex.5 Agree or disagree and correct:
Ex.6 Find in the text the answers to the following questions. Make up 5 your own questions to the sentences in the text.
Ex.8 Write down all the necessary words and read the key-word:
Make up your own story using these words. Text 10 Ex.1.a) Read the article and fill in the gaps with words and phrases from the list. but, Finally, Firstly, For example, However, In conclusion, Also, What is more, On the other hand
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