MAKING CONNECTIONS
Communication
E-mail, or electronic mail, is one of the most common ways for people to contact one another.
Searcher : GOOGLE
The founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, met when the were students at Stanford University in 1995. In 1996, they began to work together on a new system for finding information on the web. They called it "BackRub", but later changed the name to Google. They had very little money, so they borrowed computers from the university and set up an "office" in Larry's bedroom. Eventually, they rented a friend's empty garage and took on their first employee. In 2000, Google officially became the world's biggest search engine with an index of an over 1 billion pages.
Information: WIKIPEDIA
In 2001 a project was started to create a free encyclopedia containing entries written and edtited by anyone who wished to do so. This online encyclopedia was called Wikipedia. The idea came from a similar project called Nupedia, an online encyclopedia written by experts. However, Wikipedia soon became much more popular and replaced Nupedia. Today, Wikipedia includes millions of articles with people contributing information from around the world.
Buying and Selling: eBay
ebay is an Internet company that controls an online auction and shopping website. People use eBay to buy and sell goods and services around the world. The website was founded in California by a computer programmer. The first item sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer for $a4.83. The founder was astonished that someone had bought it and he contactes the buyer to check if he understood that the laser pointer was broken. In 1998, eBay became a public company and its founder became a billionaire!
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