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CD 2 Track 9. Listen to our90s quiz on the CLUB CD SOCIAL SCRAPBOOK

  It’s Christmas Day 1990. The world

knows nothing of the World Wide Web.But in Geneva, Switzerland, at the European

Organisation for Nuclear Research

(CERN), British Scientist Tim Berners-Lee

publishes the first web page and his

colleague Robert Cailliau becomes the

first surfer. The rest is history.

2010: Thebillionth websurfer 

We follow the thoughts of Barack

Obama on Twitter, play World of

Warfare  with gamers on the other

side of the globe, keep up with

friends on Facebook, download

music, movies and TV, oh and youmight just have time to research

your homework on it.

There are now over a billion web

users and no one knows for sure

how many websites there are today.

Smart phones such as the

Blackberry and Apple’s iPhone and

iPad mean that more and more

people are using mobile phones

rather* than computers to go onlinewherever they are. “I can’t imagine

life without the web!” says, Sophie 17.

“Nor, can I!” agrees Sophie’s mum,

aged 52.

DISCUSS IT

• How would you feel if you couldn’t

go online for one month?

The 1990s BEFORE YOU READ:

Can you remember a time before

the Internet? How did you…

• search for information for homework?

• book a holiday? • buy music?

• find and make friends?

1990: The firstweb surfer

WORDWISE  ✱ rather than (adv) – instead of

 WEB WONDER: Tim Berners-Lee

 The iPad

1990:  Tim Berners-Lee publishes

a proposal for the

 World Wide Web.

Timeline 1990s

1993: SMS text

messenging is

launched in

Finland.

1996: The Spice Girls release their

song Wannabe . It reaches

number 1 in in 31 countries.

1997:  Tony Blair

becomes the

British Prime

Minister.

1997: Titanic  the movie wins

11 Academy Awards.

 The director is

James Cameron,

the director

of  Avatar .

 “ E v  e r y  o n c e  i n  a  w h ile, a n  in v  e n t i o n 

 c om e s  alo n g  t h a t  s e em s  t o  c h a n g e 

 t h e  w o rl d. S  u c h  w e r e  t h e 

 a u t om ob ile,  t h e  p r i n t i n g  p r e s s,

 t ele v  i s i o n,  a n d  e v  e n  t h e  h e a t  p um p, 

b u t  n o n e  o f  t h em  c h a n g e d  t h e 

 w o rld  a s  f a s t  a s  t h e  W o rl d  W i d e 

 W eb.” — Elisabe th D Hoo ver, 

 American heri tage magazine 

“ W hen I  t oo k of fi c e, onl y  h i gh-ener  gy  

 phy s ic  ist s had  hear d  of  what   is c al l ed  

t he W or l d  W  id e W e b.  N ow ev en my  

c at  has  it s own  pa ge! ”  — B i l l  C l i n t o n , f o r m e r  U .S  p r e s i d e n t , 19 9 6 

WEB WORLD

• 79.8% of the UK

population uses the Internet.

• In the UK, 80% of five to

seven-year-olds use the Internet.

• There are only 18 countries in

the world without Internet access.

• It took the radio 38 years to

reach 50 million users, but the

Internet only took five years.