Communicating Through Internet
The history of the Internet can be dated back to the
1960’s, when the Department of (1) ______ of America sought (1) ______
to (2) ______ together some research institutions and those across (2) ______
the country for the purpose of data sharing. In the 1970’s it
was used (3) ______ by colleges and universities and some (3) ______
other research institutions. It developed rapidly in the 1980’s
as more and more universities joined the net. In the early
90s, HTML and Mosaic were develped with which one could
see (4) ______ real time off the Internet, rather than downloading (4) ______
them. Email is an important (5) ______ of the Internet, but now (5) ______
the World Wide Web is increasingly the largest part of
our Internet (6) ______. (6) ______
With the web e-commerce—electronic commerce came
into being. Compared to newspapers, radio and television,
the Internet made (7) ______ far less expensive. What’s more, (7) ______
it provided far more detailed data collection and allowed
for built-in electronic (8) ______. All this made commerce the (8) ______
driving force for the Internet and World Wide Web.
The Internet changes all the time and yet provides
no complete (9) ______. Finding information has been made easier (9) ______
by such attempts as gopher, hotlists, Yahoo and many
others. Generally we use commonly searched terms. Most of
the search (10) ______ use double quotation marks to designate (10) ______
a phrase to narrow down the search. Now meta-search
engines have been developed. They speed up searches quite a
bit and provide more complete searches.