Computer engineering

 
 
APPENDIX 1. LEAD IN ACTIVITY. 
Look at the picture and discuss with your partner 
these questions. 
1. What comes to your mind when you come across with 
the acronym www? 
2. What do you understand under the statement “file 
transfer protocol”? 
3. What is the difference between WWW and the 
Internet? 
 
APPENDIX 2. GLOSSARY. 

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Read new words and write paraphrases of the new words’ definitions by your own.
APPENDIX 3. VIDEO. HISTORY OF THE WWW 
Watch 
the 
video 
and 
discuss 
these 
questions. 
1. Why it is hard to explain what the web would be like? 
2. Who was the creator of the WWW? 
3. In what sphere the WWW first conducted? 
4. When it was full-fledged used? 
5. When the author of the WWW wrote first proposal and second proposal? 
6. When CERN management decided the web should act as an open standard for all to use? 
7. When and where the first international conference on the WWW was held? 

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APPENDIX 4. READING. 
Read the text and do given exercises.
A What the Web is 
 
The World Wide Web, Web 
or
WWW
is a network of documents that works in a 
hypertext
environment, i.e. using text that contains links, 
hyperlinks
to other documents. 
The files, 
web pages,
are stored in computers, which acts as servers. Your computer, the client
,
uses a 
web browser,
a special program to access and download them. The web pages are 
organized in