Lesson 1. Inventions and Discoveries » 19

Стор.60 19. Complete the text with the words from the box. Although the prototype of the Internet appeared (1) in the 1960s with the creation of ARPANET, for the Internet we know today we should be thankful to a British scientist (2), Sir Timothy Berners–Lee who introduced the World Wide Web. Berners–Lee chose the name «W'orld Wide Web» because he wanted to point out that, in this global hypertext system, anything could link (3) to anything else. Other possible names were: «Mine of Information» (Moi); «The Information Mine» (Tim), and «Information Mesh» (which was criticised as it looked too much like «Information Mess»). He has been at the head of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) since 1994 trying to lead the Internet (4) to its full potential. Queen Elizabeth II granted him the Knight title for his invention (5), and Time Magazine called him the world's greatest living genius. Today, we use the Internet for almost everything, and for many people it would be impossible (6) to imagine life without it.