HTML (англ. Hypertext Markup Language) язык разметки гипертекста

HTTP (англ. Hypertext Transfer Protocol) «протокол передачи гипертекста»

URI (англ. Uniform Resource Identifier) единообразный идентификатор ресурса

URL (англ. Uniform Resource Locator) единообразный локатор (определитель местонахождения) ресурса.

Web browser браузер

Consortium консорциум

Exercises

1. COMPREHENSION

Complete the table using information from the text



2. WRITING

a. Write a paragraph describing the difference between the WWW and the Internet .

b. Write the translation of the paragraph in which the four main concepts of the WWW are presented.


3. DISCUSSION

Say when and how you use WWW and Internet.

1.8 Practice

1. You have read about some inventions that help us communicate with one another. What other inventions with the same function do you remember? Try to describe them in written form.

2. Give an oral description of the most useful (in your opinion) invention of this group.

UNIT 2

INVENTIONS ENTERTAIN US

2.1 Camera

As is known, camera is a device (in photography) for recording an image of an object on a light-sensitive surface; it is essentially a light-tight box with an aperture to admit light focused onto a sensitized film or plate. Though there are many types of cameras, all include five indispensable components: (1) the camera box, which holds and protects the sensitive film from all light except that entering through the lens; (2) film, on which the image is recorded, a light-sensitive strip usually wound on a spool, either manually or automatically, as successive pictures are taken; (3) the light control, consisting of an aperture or diaphragm and a shutter, both often adjustable; (4) the lens, which focuses the light rays from the subject onto the film, creating the image, and which is usually adjustable by moving forward or back, changing the focus; and (5) the viewing system, which may be separate from the lens system (usually above it) or may operate through it by means of a mirror. Today’s cameras all derive from the 16th-century camera obscura. The first camera that was small and portable enough to be practical for photography was built by Johann Zahn in 1685, though it would be almost 150 years before technology caught up to the point where this was possible. The earliest form of this device was a darkened room with a tiny hole in one wall. Light entered the room through this hole and projected an upside-down image of the subject onto the opposite wall. Early photographic cameras were essentially similar to Zahn’s model, though usually with the addition of sliding boxes for focusing. Before each exposure a sensitized plate would be inserted in front of the viewing screen to record the image. Over the course of three centuries the camera obscura evolved into a handheld box with a lens replacing the pinhole and an angled mirror at the back. The mirror reflected an image onto a ground-glass viewing screen on the top of the box. The inventors of photography in the early 19th century adapted the camera obscura by adding a device for holding sensitized plates in the back of the box. The first permanent photograph was made in 1826 by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce using a sliding wooden box camera made by Charles and Vincent Chevalier in Paris.

Jacques Daguerre‘s popular daguerreotype process utilized copper plates, while the process invented by William Fox Talbot recorded images on paper This kind of camera, with some improvements, was used throughout the 19th century. One notable enhancement for the box, pleated leather sides called bellows, allowed the photographer to easily adjust the distance between the lens and the plane of focus. Professional photographers still use a similar camera today, a large-format camera known as the view camera In the 1880s the invention of more sensitive emulsions and better lenses led to the development of lens