Упр.116 Unit 3 ГДЗ Enjoy English 11 класс
Quiz. Read the texts. Which fact is not true? Consult dictionaries, encyclopedia and the internet if necessary.
The first e-mail was sent out by Ray Tomlinson in 1971.
Ray Tomlinson, a scientist from Cambridge, introduced electronic mail in 1972. He used the @ to distinguish between the sender’s name and network name in the e-mail address.
The search engine Google got its name from the word “googol”, which refers to the number one with a hundred zeros after it.
Yahoo! derived its name from the word “yahoo” coined by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver’s Travels. A “yahoo” is a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is seen as barely human!
The very first web browser was created by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the “world wide web”. It already had a GUI (графический интерфейс пользователя) when it was created in 1990.
Domain names can be sold at really high prices! The most expensive domain name was “business.com”, which was bought by eCompanies for $7.5 million in 1999.
Неверным является факт о Yahoo!: слово yahoo не было придумано Джонатаном Свифтом. Оно встречается в Gulliver’s Travels, но как название для грубых, диких существ, а не как слово, созданное Свифтом.
Ответ: The fact about Yahoo! is not true.
