B) stimulated interest in other cultures
C) led to the establishment of colonies
D) resulted in archaelogical discoveries in Africa
B. Communication
has chosen to lead and the role he has chosen to play in helping to guide this emerging technology.
3 If you were in a time machine and could travel back to 1960s London, you might find young Tim
Berners-Lee busily constructing make-believe computers out of cardboard boxes or playing mathematical
games with his parents at their kitchen table. Tim is fascinated by the world around him. His natural curiosity
attracts him to a dusty Victorian-era encyclopedia he finds in his house; its mysterious title, Enquire Within
Upon Everything, will stay with him for years to come.
4 Fast-forward to 2001. Over 250 million people are using the Internet, a system virtually unheard of
10 years earlier, and Tim Berners-Lee is largely responsible. How could one person make it all happen?
5 For some clues, let’s go back to Tim’s early adulthood. Tim was especially interested in two things:
computers and how the human brain organizes and links information. He wondered how the mind can
almost randomly connect so many different facts. For instance, how can a song or a scent mentally link or
even transport someone to another time and place? Tim was so fascinated by computers that, before
graduating from the University of Oxford, he built his very first one from a kit using a television and an early
microprocessor.
6 In 1980, after graduating with a degree in physics, Tim went to work as a software engineer for an
organization in Geneva, Switzerland. His job required a lot of research. He communicated with people all over
the world and he was constantly answering the same questions over and over. He was frustrated by how
poorly his mind could remember all of the reports and data he needed. He wished there were a way other
people could simply access his data and he could access theirs via computer no matter where they were
located.
7 Tim wrote a software program to help him keep track of important documents and, using a series of
links (hypertext), he connected them together much like an index does in a book. He named the program
Enquire after the book he loved as a child. In its original form, Enquire was capable of storing information
and connecting documents electronically, but it could only access information on a single computer.
8 In 1989, Tim took a giant step towards his vision of a global system where documents could be linked
via hypertext to the Internet, allowing people worldwide to easily share and link information. After much
thought, he called his project the World Wide Web. Many people thought that connecting documents stored
in individual computers around the world was impossible.
9 And even if it were possible, few of his fellow scientists thought it would ever become popular.
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10 Tim was not discouraged. Working with a few colleagues who supported his vision, he developed the
four critical foundations of the Web: The language for coding documents (HTML); the hypertext system for
linking documents (HTTP); the system for locating documents on the Web (URL); the first graphical user
interface (Internet browser). In 1991, the Web was launched and almost immediately, the Internet took off.
11 Although he has had many opportunities to do so, Tim has not profited from his creation. . . . [He]
works for a non-profit organization located at M.I.T., a leading engineering university. Married with two
children, Tim leads a good life, one that is full of professional challenges. He is pleased with the road he chose
to follow. Today, he helps set standards and guides the Web’s future, so he can be assured that it will remain
open to all and not be splintered into many parts or dominated by one corporation. However, like Einstein,
who was concerned with his role in the development of nuclear power, Tim believes that technology can be
used for good or for evil. “At the end of the day,” Tim says, “it is up to us: how we actually react, and how
we teach our children, and the values we instill.” To this day, Tim Berners-Lee works hard to see that the
technology he invented remains accessible to all people around the globe. That, rather than instant wealth, is
his reward.
Based on the biography, explain how Tim Berners-Lee's early childhood interests influenced the path he chose as an adult. Use at least TWO details from the text to support your answer.
Describe what influence this idea had on Tim Berners-Lee's approach to writing new programs that operate computers. Use at least TWO details from the biography to support your answer.
Answer: 2 Probably not, yet the work of Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, may have the most
Explanation:its in the text book in page 42 the glizzy
Answer:
i cant comprehend -
Explanation:
b. False
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