The World Wide Web Flashcards

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Kudos

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Kudos is praise & appreciation for sth you’ve done.

Give them more kudos for being so constructive for example … .
Well, kudos to You Rob for today’s programme.
When did Tim Lee”British compuer scientist” first suggested the idea for what would become the WWW?
1989

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Ameliorate

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Ameliorate, which means to improve or make sth better.

The issue could perhaps be hugely ameliorated by … .
This medicine should help ameliorate the pain.
To ameliorate a situation is to make it better.

Do You think the internet has generally been + or - for the world?
I think it’s true to say that the internet has been one of the, if not most important technological developments perhaps of all time.

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Anonymity

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Anonymity means hiding your identity or personality.

People can have anonymity on internet.
Anonymity can bring out the nastiest side of people.

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Neutral

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Not engaged on either sides.

The two countries were neutral while their neighbors were @ war.
They just had to be neutral.

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Initially

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Initially means @ first, in the beginning.

Father of internet “Tim-Berners-Lee, British”, he thought initially, that internet had to be neutral.
He does say that giving people access to source of info is generally a good thing.

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Tweaking

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Tweaking means making small changes to the way sth works.

The issue could perhaps be hugely ameliorated by tweaking the way things work, by changing the way retweets are propagated, or changing the way people get kudos.

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