Historia Del Internet

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I ntroduction
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S putnik

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T he First Computer Network

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C hapter 3

To the Internet

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T he Personal Computer

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The World Wide Web

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N etscape

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C hapter 7

Yahoo! -A Guide to Everything

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T he Future

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Activities

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Business Wordlist
a ccountant
b id
b ranch
c apital
c onsultant
corporation
t o expand
e xpert
l ink
l oan
n egotiate
n etwork
o bjective
p artnership
p roject
p ublish
sack
share
s tock exchange
t rade

a person who reports the finances of a
c ompany
an offer to do work, provide a service or pay
a particular price for something
p art of a large organization, often a shop or
an office
m oney that helps to build a new business
a person who givesbusiness advice
a big company
to increase or grow
a person with special knowledge of a subject
a c onnection or a relationship between
p eople, organizations, ideas or things
m oney that has been lent
to try to come to an agreement with another
p erson
a system that connects people, organizations
or things together
a business aim
a business that is owned by two or more
p eople
a pieceof work that needs knowledge, skill
and planning
to print something and offer it for sale to the
public
to tell someone to leave their job
a piece of paper that says you own a part of a
c ompany
a place where people buy and sell shares
to buy and sell

Introduction
'This software's going to change everything. Soon everyone will be using
it' Marc Andreessen said to John Doerr. Johnoften heard claims like this.
His job was finding finance for new companies. So every day he met
people who were confident that their ideas were going to change the world
and make millions of dollars in the process. But Marc and his plan were
different.
Marc was only twenty-three years old, but already he had a good
reason to be confident. A few months before, he had written a program
calledMosaic. Now two million people were using it.
At the time when Marc Andreessen said that his software was
going to change everything, the Internet was just a hobby for
most of the people who used it. People said that no one made
m oney from the Internet. But before there were roads, people
had said that you could not make money from cars. They had said
that you could not sell telephones 'whenthere was no one to call.
In 1994, Marc Andreessen was one of the few people who saw
the commercial possibilities of the Internet. His company,
Netscape, allowed ordinary people to take advantage of a
t echnology that, until then, had only been used by scientists and
e ngineers.
T he Internet began as a very small part of America's struggle
w ith the Soviet Union in the Cold War. But itstarts the twentyfirst century as the technology that will change the lives of almost
every person on the planet. This is its story.

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C hapter 1

Sputnik

U ntil the evening of 4 October 1957, the US President, Dwight
D. Eisenhower, was confident that he led the world's greatest
n ation. In the USA, the early 1950s are known as the Eisenhower
years. Many Americans remember these...