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Reading Unit 10: Student: Ramos Marcos, Benjamin Jhehu

The document summarizes key details about the origins and histories of several important early internet technologies and sites. It discusses the first internet cafe, opened in London in 1994. It also outlines the first search engine created by Alan Emtage in 1990, the first blog started by Justin Hall in 1994, the first computer virus created by John von Neumann, and the first social networking site started by Randy Conrads in the late 1990s which later became known as SixDegrees. The document provides names, dates, and brief histories and contexts for the creation and spread of these foundational internet innovations.

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Reading Unit 10: Student: Ramos Marcos, Benjamin Jhehu

The document summarizes key details about the origins and histories of several important early internet technologies and sites. It discusses the first internet cafe, opened in London in 1994. It also outlines the first search engine created by Alan Emtage in 1990, the first blog started by Justin Hall in 1994, the first computer virus created by John von Neumann, and the first social networking site started by Randy Conrads in the late 1990s which later became known as SixDegrees. The document provides names, dates, and brief histories and contexts for the creation and spread of these foundational internet innovations.

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READING UNIT 10

Student: Ramos Marcos, Benjamin Jhehu

1. Work in groups. What do you use the Internet for? Make a list. Read the introduction
and compare your ideas.

 Chat with friends and family.


 Source of information.
 Process online.
 Online shopping.
 Job search.
 Download documents.

What do you use the Internet for?


INTRODUCTION FOR ME
Shop, bank, work, and meet people Chat with friends and family, source of
online, but we share what we are doing at information, process online, online
any given moment with such sites as shopping, job search, and download
Facebook and Twitter. documents.

2. Match the headings in Five Internet Firsts with these lines.

The first search engine

The first blog

The first virus

The first Internet café

The first social networking


site
3. You’re going to read some of the articles. Divide them amongst your group. Read and
take notes about …

 Names and nationalities of the people


1) Ivan Pope from Londres. – The first Internet Café.
2) Alan Emtage from Barbados, Canada. – The first search engine.
3) Justin Hall from US – The first blog.
4) John von Neumann from Germany – The first virus.
5) Randy Conrands from US – The first social networking site.

 What and where was the first


1) The first commercial internet café, called Cyberia, opened later that year in
central London. It quickly became the hot spot to be seen. - The first Internet
Café.
2) The first social networking site, began life in the basement of Randy Conrads, a
Boeing employee in the United States. – The first social networking site.
3) Brain was the first virus to infect PC; in 1991 – The first virus.

 Important dates and events in its history


1) Internet cafes soon spread around the world under a variety of names, for
example Binary Café in Canada. CompuCafe in Finland, PCBang in South Korea and
the @Cafe in New York. - The first Internet café
2) Excite was created in 1993, created by six Stanford University students, Yahoo in
1994 and Lycos also in 1994. – The first search engine.
3) One name bears all other global social networking sites, Facebook. Created in
2004 by students from Harvard University, it went global in 2006 and has more
than 750 million users. There has even been a movie, The Social Network, made
about it. – The first social networking site.

4. Use your notes to report back to your group. Do any of the Five Internet Firsts play a
part in your life? How?

The first social networking site.


I use social networks daily to communicate and find out about the latest news. It is even
used to search for a job through links.
Social networks continue to advance as a means of communication both personally and
professionally: they allow us to connect with friends, family and people with common
interests, but not only that, because they are also a source of information.
5. Read all the articles. Answer the questions.

1) What is there less need for these days? Why?


The first Virus, because it is not very common to create a virus for a computer, but if
it exists for me it is a less relevant topic.

2) What is PCBang?
It is an internet café created in South Korea.

3) What was ‘Archie’? How did get its name?


It was a search system, they called it 'Archie'. Why was he called Archie? Just the
word 'file' without the 'v'.

4) How did ‘blogging’ get its name? Who named it?


Justin Hall, el empezó blogging en 1994 (antes de que existiera la palabra 'bIog') con
un sitio web llamado 'Justin's Links from the Underground'.

5) Which virus broke hearts? How?


Love Letter broke hearts by sending emails saying 'I love you' to tens of millions of
computers.

6) Which has more users, MySpace or Facebook? How many do they have?
Facebook has more users.
o Facebook, 750 million users.
o MySpace, 180 million users.

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