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1、Unit 5 Network Designer Tim Berners-Lee,Quiz: how many words do you know about the Internet?,mouse, modem, screen, keyboard, www, http, html, log on/out, search engine, type in, click, point-and-click, scroll up/down, browse, Internet access, homepage, blog, twitter/weibo, BBS, social networking sit
2、es (SNS), facebook, upload/download, hack/hacker, username, password, nickname, lurk, spam, polarization, emoticon,Internet acronyms,AAMOF A/S/L BRB BTW COS CU CUL8R G2CU F2T FYEO G2R GR8 HF MUSM NP NW TC OMG OTFL ROFL WB WAM,As a matter of fact Age/sex/location Be right back By the way because See
3、you See you later Good to see you Face to face For your eyes only Got to run Great Have fun Miss you so much No problem No way Take care Oh my God On the floor rolling Rolling on floor laughing Welcome back Wait a minute,Background introduction,World Wide Web (WWW): computer-based network of informa
4、tion resources that combines text and multimedia. The Web started to become a popular resource after 1993 when the first widely distributed browser provided a convenient way to access a variety of information on the Internet. The Web uses multimedia, which means that information can be displayed in
5、a wide variety of formats. Users can read text, view pictures, watch animation, listen to sounds, and even explore interactive virtual environments on the Web. The information on the World Wide Web can be accessed and searched through the Internet, a global computer network. The World Wide Web is of
6、ten referred to simple as the Web.,Sir Tim Berners-Lee (Father of the Web),Berners-Lee was born in south west London, in 1955, the eldest child of two renowned mathematicians within the computer industry. A graduate of Oxford University, England. Queen Elizabeth II dubbed（ 授予称号）Tim Berners-Lee, the
7、computer wizard/genius a knight with a sword in recognition of his contributions to the World Wide Web in 2004. As a British citizen, Berners-Lee will be able to use the title Sir Tim.,Berners-Lee told the press he was notified of the honor a few days ago via the telephone, and not through the Inter
8、net or e-mail.-“I am humbled by this great honor,“ Berners-Lee said. “The Web came about through an ongoing collaboration with my fellow investors and developers worldwide. Everyone in the Internet community should be recognized by this honor.“ The “father of the World Wide Web“ received a knighthoo
9、d for services to the Internet, but it is just one of the many honors and awards that Berners-Lee has received for his efforts. He has also been honored with the Millennium Technology Prize from the Finnish Technology Award Foundation and awarded by Prince Philip the Albert Medal of the Royal Societ
10、y of Arts.,The modest, publicity-shy physicist, now based in the U.S., is at pains to point out that he did not invent the Internet itself and insists he is “quite an ordinary person.“ But without his creation, there would be no www computer addresses and the Internet might still be the exclusive do
11、main of a handful of computer experts. Currently he is also engaged in developing his second big idea: the Semantic Web, which adds definition tags to information in Web pages and links them in such a way that computers can discover data more efficiently and form new associations between pieces of i
12、nformation, in effect creating a globally distributed database.,The father of the World Wide Web shared his concerns and dreams during an interview:,Q: Besides the Semantic Web, do you have any other dreams or wishes for the future of the Web? B-L: Oh, lots and lots! I have always wanted the Web to
13、be a more creative, flexible medium. Im excited about the new portable devices we can use for the Web, about speech-based technology, and a lot of other things. Once you start with the basic Web idea, so much stuff becomes possible.,Text comprehension,Read the text in 20 minutes and Task 1: Underlin
14、e the key words or sentences in each paragraph. At the same time, mark the new words and expressions for later treatment. Task 2: Find out what is the text type of this article Narration: biography (p.88) Task 3: Divide the text into six parts, and summarize the main idea of each part. (p.84),Part 1
15、 (Para 1-2): You can get any information you want as long as you have access to the Internet. Part 2 (Para 3-4): World Wide Web, which began as a little computer program nearly 20 years ago, was the work of Tim Berners-Lee alone. Part 3 (Para 5-7): Berners-Lee designed a kind of “hypertext” notebook
16、 which linked various kinds of information on his own computer, and then decided to open it up to everyone and make it a global link of all information.,Part 4 (Para 8-9): Berners-Lee devised HTML, URL and HTTP, all of which finally gave rise to the debut of World Wide Web in 1991, and to its exponential growth ever since. Part 5 (Para 10-11): Brought up as a quitessential child of the computer age, Berners-Lee created a most significant global system. Part 6 (Para 12): In spite of hi
