Read the text about the Internet and answer the questions below
You can do more and more on the Internet!
Its history
The internet started in que 1960s. The United States Department of Defense started it because they wanted a computer network to help the American military. In the 1970s, scientists worked on it and learnt how to send messages between computers. Then in the 1980s, telephone companies made it possible to communicate on the computer network in many more countries. An international computer language was born, and the Net went worldwide
Millions of uses
You can use the Internet for millions of things. You can google for information about anything and everything: you can buy and sell clothes and cars: you can book a hotel, a holiday, or tickets for the cinema; you can pay your bills; you can watch your favourite TV programme; you can play chess with a partner in Moscow; you can chat to your friends and share photographs on Facebook; you can write a blog about your life
You can...
The list is endless!!!
Are these sentences true or false? Correct the false ones!
- The Internet started in 1970s
- Telephone companies started it.
- It started in the USA
- In the 1980s, scientists sent messages between computers.
- Theres is an international computer language.
