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Number 6 June 2009
Shortly about the WWW history – Part 2
Berners-Lee found an enthusiastic collaborator in Robert Cailliau. Berners-Lee and Cailliau pitched their ideas to the European Conference on Hypertext Technology in September 1990. But they found no vendors.
By Christmas 1990 Berners-Lee had built all the tools necessary for working the Web: the first Web browser, (which was also a Web editor), the first Web server, and the first Web pages that described the project itself.
In May 1991 Paul Kunz from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in the USA visited CERN, and was captivated by the Web. He brought the CERN software to SLAC, where it was adapted for the IBM virtual machine operating systems (VM/CMS) on the IBM mainframe. This was the first Web server outside CERN and the first in North America.
On August 6, 1991, Berners-Lee posted a short summary of the World Wide Web project on the hypertext newsgroup. This date marked the debut of the Web as a publicly available service on the Internet. Berners-Lee now heads the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which develops and maintains standards that enable computers on the Web to effectively communicate and store different forms of information.
References:
Wilipedia, the free encyclopedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
PS: See more technical texts and discuss them at http://techenglish.wordpress.com
Vocabulary (See also the Vocabulary in The ViCTE Newsletter Number 5)
| English | Russian | Czech |
| mainframe | мэйнфрейм – высокопроизводительный компьютер общего назначения со | mainframe (server apod.) |
| operating system | oперационная система | operační systém |
| short summary | краткое изложение | stručný přehled |
| Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) | Станфордский линейный ускоритель | Stanfordský lineární urychlovač (částic) (SLAC) |
| store | запоминать, хранить | uložit, uchovat (data v paměti) |
| Web Consortium (W3C) | Веб-Консорциум | web Konsorcium (W3C) |
| Web editor | веб редактор | webový editor |
| Web server | Веб-сервер | webový server |
Exercise 1: Fill in gaps in the text with words from the table below
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built captivated heads collaborator pitched |
- Berners-Lee found an enthusiastic … (1) … in Robert Cailliau.
- They … (2) … their ideas to the European Conference on Hypertext Technology in September 1990.
- By Christmas 1990 Berners-Lee had … (3) … all the tools necessary for working the Web.
- In May 1991 Paul Kunz visited CERN, and was … (4) … by the Web.
- Berners-Lee now … (5) … the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Exercise 2: Use the word in capitals given in brackets at the end of each line to form a related word that fits in the space in the same line
Example:
On August 6, 1991, Berners-Lee posted a short summary of the World Wide Web … … on the hypertext newsgroup. [PROJECTION]
On August 6, 1991, Berners-Lee posted a short summary of the World Wide Web project on the hypertext newsgroup.
- The first Web pages described the Web project itself. [DESCRIPTION]
- In May 1991 Paul Kunz … … the CERN software to the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in the USA. [BRING]
- In SLAC the CERN software was adapted for the VM/CMS … … system on the IBM mainframe. [OPERATE]
- August 1991 marked the debut of the Web as a publicly available … … on the Internet. [SERVE]
- W3C enable computers on the Web to … … communicate and store different forms of information. [effect]
PS: See keys to the exercises in the next number of The ViCTE Newsletter.
LEARN HOMONYMS with bbc !
PS: A homonym here is one of a group of words that share the same pronunciation but have different meanings.
Keys to exercises in the Newsletter No5, May 2009
Exercise 1: Fill in gaps in the text with words from the table below
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mistakenly over linked software hyperlinks |
- The World Wide Web is a system of hypertext documents running over the Internet.
- The Web browser ensures navigation between the Web pages using hyperlinks.
- The term Web is often mistakenly used as a synonym for the Internet itself.
- Each new page of information in ENQUIRE had to be linked to an existing page.
- ENQUIRE was a personal database of people and software models at CERN.
Exercise 2: Use the word in capitals given in brackets at the end of each line to form a related word that fits in the space in the same line
- The Web was created around 1990 by T. Berners-Lee and R. Cailliau working at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. [WORK]
- The Web is a service that operates over the Internet. [OPERATION]
- The history of the Internet dates back significantly further than that of the Web. [SIGNIFY]
- Berners-Lee considered problems of information sharing among high-energy physicists from around the world. [INFORMING]
- Berners-Lee began implementing his system on a newly acquired NeXT workstation. [ACQUISITION]
June 15, 2009 at 2:08 pm
There is a site that just set up a section on HOMONYMS call Chill-lahPedia, quite cool. Take a look at their HOMONYMS here:
http://www.kickstart.com.my/ChillLah/Pedia_library.htm
You can contribute some to their pedia!
June 21, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Thank you for useful information.
November 28, 2011 at 10:41 am
[...] The pages of a website are approached from a common root URL (Uniform Resource Locator or Universal Resource Locator) called the homepage, and usually reside on the same physical server. The URLs of the pages organise them into a hierarchy. Nonetheless, the hyperlinks between web pages regulate how the reader perceives the overall structure and how the traffic flows between the different parts of the sites. The first on-line website appeared in 1991 in CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research situated in the suburbs of Geneva on the Franco–Swiss border) – for more information see ViCTE Newsletter Number 5 – WWW History (Part1) / May 2009, Number 6 – WWW History (Part2) / June 2009. [...]