Unit 5 Network Designer —— Tim Berners-Lee I. Background Information 1. Tim Berners-Lee  Tim Berners-Lee is the man who wrote the software program that led to the foundation of the World Wide Web. Britain played an important part in developing the first generation of computers. The parents of Tim Berners-Lee both worked on one of the earliest commercial(商业) computers and talked about their work at home. As a child he would build models of computers ?from packaging material. After graduating from Oxford University he went on to the real thing. In the 1980's scientists were already communicating using a primitive version ( 原始的版本 ) of e-mail. While working at a lab in Switzerland Tim Berners-Lee wrote a program which let him store these massages. This gave him another idea. Write a program that will let academics (学术界人士 ) from across the world share information on a single site. In 1990 he wrote The HTTP and HTML Programs which form the basis of the World Web. In 1994 Tim Berners-Lee formed the newly World Wide Web consortium (协会), or W3C. More than 200 leading companies and labs are presented by W3C. Together they make sure that everyone can participate (分享) equally on the web. "The web can help people to understand the way that others live and work. It helps us understand the humanity of people." he said. 2. About the author Joshua Quittner Joshua Quittner, Time’s Personal Technology columnist, is the new editor of Time Digital 3. Internet The Internet is an international computer system that links both business and private users, one of the greatest inventions of the human history. 4. Other terms: protocols, packet switching, hypertext, HTML, HTTP and W3 Consortium Please refer to the Student’s Book, Page 86-86 5. Introductory questions: 1) What nationality is Tim Berners-Lee? 2) Is he a university graduate? 3) When did he begin to take an interest in the computer? 4) Did he work in a research institute specializing in computer science? 5) Was he given the assignment of designing the World Wide Web or did he hit upon the idea just by accident? 6) What was it that made WWW a reality? II. Language points 1. launch: to send something straight into the air. Rockets or certain jet planes are launched. China is very good at launching satellites. a ship an artificial satellite launch one's son into the world a new enterprise an attack a mass production movement 2. zip off: move or act with a speed that suggests such a sound: act or proceed swiftly and energetically: The cars zipped by endlessly. The young boy zipped through her homework so that he could go swimming with his buddies. She zipped up her dress 3. exotic: from another part of the world; foreign e.g. exotic tropical plants in a greenhouse intriguingly unusual or different; excitingly strange: e.g. exotic costumes from the Far East an exotic purple bird 4. encumber: put a heavy load on; burden a hiker who was encumbered with a heavy pack; a life that has always been encumbered with responsibilities. to be encumbered with debts be encumbered with 为...所累 a plantation encumbered with mortgages 已抵押出去的种植园 5. father: to procreate (offspring) as the male parent. to act or serve as a father to (a child). to create, found, or originate. The book is falsely fathered on Homer. 这本书被误认为是荷马的著作。 to father a plan / an invention 6. build on : This part of the hospital was built on later. His argument is built on facts. (base on) The insurance business is built on trust. 7. come across: to meet or find by chance: Surprisingly enough, I came across my old college roommate in town today. 8. access to the Internet --- the opportunity to use the Internet Access: the means or opportunity or right to use or see something, always following by the preposition “to” In a university library, we have access to large numbers of academic books. In our country, every child is granted access to education. 9. Where excellence is not an act but a habit. Where high quality is not just something someone does on certain occasions, but rather something that one does regularly and that one finds it difficult to stop doing. 10. It started, of all places, in the Swiss Alps. Surprisingly enough, such a fact did not take place in an industrial city or town but in the Swiss Alps, which seemed to be remote from industry. 11. on the seventh day: (phrase from the Bible, the last day of creation) 12. fashion: v. give shape or form to; make: He fashioned the clay into a jar. The carpenter fashioned a table from a redwood burl. 将红木树瘤制成桌子 13. hack: work on the computer skillfully hack --- hacker 14. pretend: a. imitation; make-believe pretend money; pretend pearls. 15. overstate: exaggerate overstate one's case 16. be content to do sth.: to be satisfied or pleased with With my new bedroom furniture, I am very content. She was content to step down after four years as chief executive. She is content with very little. We should never content ourselves with a little book knowledge only. The old couple seem content to sit in front of the television all night. 17. cash in: take advantage or profit Let’s cash in on the fine weather and go out for the day. Profiteers cashed in during the gasoline shortage. 18. head: v. proceed or go in a certain direction head for town. head over heels in debt / love Quiz 5 Name ______________ Score ______________ I. Explain the following words, phrases and sentences in your own words. 1. unencumbered: 2. noodle around: 3. come across: 4. build on: 5. debut: 6. launch: 7. nifty: 8. stint: 9. quintessential: 10. lingua franca: 11. juncture: 12. cobble: 13. cash in on: 14. fashion (v.): 15. exotic: 16. phemonenal; 17. content (adj.) 18. millionare-spawning: 19. random: 20. father (v.): II. Translate the following computer terms into English. 1. 搜索器 2． 数据交换  3．调制解调器 4．网络空间  5．向上滚动 6． 双击  7．显示器 8． 浏览器  9．万维网 10．因特网接口  11．点击 12．超文本传输协议  13．光标 14．文件夹  15．撤消 16．（电脑）文件  III. Translate the following into Chinese. 1. on the seventh day: 2. Netscape: 3. garlic bulb: 4. Victorian-era encyclopedia: