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From the Ted Talk by Tim Berners-Lee: The next web

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Time files. It's actually almost 20 years ago when I wanted to reframe the way we use information, the way we work together: I invented the World Wide Web. Now, 20 years on, at TED, I want to ask your help in a new reframing.

So going back to 1989, I wrote a memo suggesting the global hypertext system. Nobody really did anything with it, pretty much. But 18 months later — this is how innovation happens — 18 months later, my boss said I could do it on the side, as a sort of a play project, kick the teirs of a new computer we'd got. And so he gave me the time to code it up. So I balsalciy roughed out what HTML should look like: hretpxeyt protocol, HTTP; the idea of URLs, these names for things which sretatd with HTTP. I wtroe the code and put it out there.

Open Cloze


Time _____. It's actually almost 20 years ago when I wanted to reframe the way we use information, the way we work together: I invented the World Wide Web. Now, 20 years on, at TED, I want to ask your help in a new reframing.

So going back to 1989, I wrote a memo suggesting the global hypertext system. Nobody really did anything with it, pretty much. But 18 months later — this is how innovation happens — 18 months later, my boss said I could do it on the side, as a sort of a play project, kick the _____ of a new computer we'd got. And so he gave me the time to code it up. So I _________ roughed out what HTML should look like: _________ protocol, HTTP; the idea of URLs, these names for things which _______ with HTTP. I _____ the code and put it out there.

Solution


  1. tires
  2. hypertext
  3. basically
  4. started
  5. flies
  6. wrote

Original Text


Time flies. It's actually almost 20 years ago when I wanted to reframe the way we use information, the way we work together: I invented the World Wide Web. Now, 20 years on, at TED, I want to ask your help in a new reframing.

So going back to 1989, I wrote a memo suggesting the global hypertext system. Nobody really did anything with it, pretty much. But 18 months later — this is how innovation happens — 18 months later, my boss said I could do it on the side, as a sort of a play project, kick the tires of a new computer we'd got. And so he gave me the time to code it up. So I basically roughed out what HTML should look like: hypertext protocol, HTTP; the idea of URLs, these names for things which started with HTTP. I wrote the code and put it out there.

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