Tham khảo tài liệu '202 useful exercises for ielts part 4', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | I PART 3 - TECHNOLOGY SKIMMING Read the text once for the gist overall idea and then in detail i Almost everyone with or without a computer is aware of the latest technological revolution destined to change forever the way in which humans communicate namely the Information Superhighway best exemplified by the ubiquitous Internet. Already millions of people around the world are linked by computer simply by having a modem 5 and an address on the Net in much the same way that owning a telephone links us to almost anyone who pays a phone bill. In fact since the computer connections are made via the phone line the Internet can be envisaged as a network of visual telephone links. It remains to be seen in which direction the Information Superhighway is headed but many believe it is the educational hope of the future. io The World Wide Web an enormous collection of Internet addresses or sites all of which can be accessed for information has been mainly responsible for the increase in interest in the Internet in the 1990s. Before the World Wide Web the Net was comparable to an integrated collection of computerised typewriters but the introduction of the Web in 1990 allowed not only text links to be made but also graphs images and even video. is A Web site consists of a home page the first screen of a particular site on the computer to which you are connected from where access can be had to other subject related pages at the site and to thousands of other computers all over the world. This is achieved by a process called hypertext . By clicking with a mouse device on various parts of the screen a person connected to the Net can go travelling or surfing through 20 a web of pages to locate whatever information is required. Anyone can set up a site promoting your club your institution your company s products o- simply yourself is what the Web and the Internet is all about. And what is more information on the Internet is not owned or controlled by any one organisation. It is
