English class By Miss Brenda Jara Ortega CONTENT

English class By Miss Brenda Jara Ortega

CONTENT 6 CONTENT UNIT 5: COMPANY HISTORIES • Reading: Nintendo. • Grammar: past simple tense (regular verbs) • Listening: Story about Nintendo. Who really invented the Internet? • Reading and Writing: Birth of the internet. • Speaking: Answering wh – questions. • Writing: Company history.

WHO REALLY INVENTED INTERNET?

• • : BIRTH OF THE INTERNET READING The history of the Internet begins with the development of electronic computers in the 1950 s. Initial concepts ofpacket networking originated in several computer science laboratories in the United States, Great Britain, and France. The US Department of Defense awarded contracts as early as the 1960 s for packet network systems, including the development of the ARPANET (which would become the first network to use the Internet Protocol. ) The first message was sent over the ARPANET from computer science Professor Leonard Kleinrock's laboratory at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to the second network node at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) Packet switching networks such as ARPANET, NPL network, CYCLADES, Merit Network, Tymnet, and Telenet, were developed in the late 1960 s and early 1970 s using a variety of communications protocols. Donald Davies was the first to put theory into practice by designing a packet-switched network at the National Physics Laboratory in the UK, the first of its kind in the world and the cornerstone for UK research for almost two decades. [1][2] Following, ARPANET further led to the development of protocols for internetworking, in which multiple separate networks could be joined into a network of networks.

Access to the ARPANET was expanded in 1981 when the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded the Computer Science Network (CSNET). In 1982, the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) was introduced as the standard networking protocol on the ARPANET. In the early 1980 s the NSF funded the establishment for national supercomputing centers at several universities, and provided interconnectivity in 1986 with the NSFNET project, which also created network access to the supercomputer sites in the United States from research and education organizations. Commercial. Internet service providers (ISPs) began to emerge in the very late 1980 s. The ARPANET was decommissioned in 1990. Limited private connections to parts of the Internet by officially commercial entities emerged in several American cities by late 1989 and 1990, [3] and the NSFNET was decommissioned in 1995, removing the last restrictions on the use of the Internet to carry commercial traffic. In the 1980 s, the work of Tim Berners-Lee in the United Kingdom, on the World Wide Web, theorised the fact that protocols link hypertext documents into a working system, [4] marking the beginning of the modern Internet. Since the mid-1990 s, the Internet has had a revolutionary impact on culture and commerce, including the rise of near-instant communication by electronic mail, instant messaging, voice over Internet Protocol (Vo. IP) telephone calls, twoway interactive video calls, and the World Wide Web with its discussion forums, blogs, social networking, and online shopping sites. The research and education community continues to develop and use advanced networks such as NSF's very high speed Backbone Network Service (v. BNS), Internet 2, and National Lambda. Rail. Increasing amounts of data are transmitted at higher and higher speeds over fiber optic networks operating at 1 -Gbit/s, 10 Gbit/s, or more. The Internet's takeover of the global communication landscape was almost instant in historical terms: it only communicated 1% of the information flowing through twoway telecommunications networks in the year 1993, already 51% by 2000, and more than 97% of the telecommunicated information by 2007. [5] Today the Internet continues to grow, driven by ever greater amounts of online information, commerce, entertainment, and social networking.

WH-QUESTIONS WHAT DID YOU KNOW ABOUT INTERNET? WHY DO YOU LIKE YOUR JOB? WHEN DOES SHE APPLY HER JOB? WHERE DO YOU FIND YOUR FIRST JOB?

WRITING: COMPANY HISTORY Writing a Company History A well-written company history can entice prospective customers, investors and employees April 8, 2010 — Posted By Judy Artunian The story of your company’s evolution may seem ho-hum to you, but it can play an important role in building trust and respect. Every company has been shaped by moments of inspiration, perseverance, courage, or dumb luck. Your company history should feature the most compelling of those stories, along with significant achievements such as patents and major contract wins. Include your history in your business plan and employee handbook, and on your Web site’s “About Us” page. Some companies also turn their corporate story into a book that is presented to employees and others on special occasions. The message behind your corporate milestones can even become the cornerstone of your brand. Your history should include: Why your company was started. A brief profile of the founders. Major turning points in your company’s life. Amusing and inspirational events that have occurred along the way. Read other company histories Get inspired by seeing how other companies have recounted their background. Microsoft tells its multi-faceted success story with a series of articles that recount some of the company’s most noteworthy achievements over the last decade.