Integrated skills a one, listen to the talk and answer the following questions. Good morning class. Today i'm going to talk about the internet. I'm sure all of you use the internet, but what do you know about IT? Now let me tell you about its history and development. The first general purpose computers came onto the market in the early nineteen fifties. but I was only in nineteen sixty nine that scientists invented away for computers to communicate with each other. This meant that computers allowed people to pass messages . along in network and talk to each other. To start with. only four computers were connected, and the network was for military use. Public commercial use of the internet began in mid one thousand and eighty nine. One of the main applications of the internet is the world wide web. Pages on the world wide web are called websites . and can be access through the internet. They were originally . used as a space for scientists around the world to share information. The world's first website was built in one thousand nine ninety by ten burners. Lee, a british scientist. he then taught others how to build their own websites. allowing the internet to grow. Within twenty four years, there were more than one billion websites online. Two years later, in two thousand and sixteen, three point six billion people were using the internet, about forty eight percent of the world's population at the time. And increasingly, people are using their phones to access the internet. The future is definitely online and it's definitely mobile.