Unit 5 Net Changes Life (1)
Part I Warming up
A.

Key words:
email message
addresses
Queen Elizabeth II
Jimmy Carter
email accounts
hoax
register for
Vocabulary:
crash
coordinate
account
hoax
Maine

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Great Dates in Email History
October 1969
Leonard Kleinrock, a UCLA computer science professor, sends the first email message to a colleague at Stanford. The computer promptly crashes.
March 1972
Ray Tomlinson, author of the first email software, chooses the "@" for addresses: "I got there first, so I got to choose any punctuation I wanted."
February 1976
Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first head of State to send an email message.
Fall 1976
Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale use email every day during their campaign to coordinate their travel schedules. A single message costs US $ 4 to send.
September 1983
Colby College in Waterville, Maine, becomes one of the first institutions of higher education to assign email accounts to all its students.
December 1994
A widely circulated email hoax appears, warning that reading an email entitled "Good Times" will erase your hard drive and destroy your processor.
December 1998
In the movie You've Got Mail, a celebration of email romance, Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks recreate The Shop Around the Corner online. The original movie, The Shop Around the Corner, was shown in 1937.
B.
Key words:
Information superhighway      shorthand      abbreviations
Vocabulary:

techie
zoom
decode
standby
make the rounds

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