Internet - good or bad?

6 Minute English

BBC

Language Learning, Education

4.5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2018

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Rob and Neil discuss some of the advantages and drawbacks of going online

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0:00.0	This is a download from BBC Learning English.
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0:06.0	Six Minute English.
0:08.0	From BBC Learning English.
0:10.0	Hello, welcome to Six Minute. English.
0:13.5	Hello, welcome to Six Minute English.
0:15.6	I'm Rob.
0:16.6	And I'm Neil.
0:17.6	Now, Neil, can you remember the first time you ever used the World Wide Web?
0:22.2	Or as we often call it, internet and what you used it for?
0:25.6	Oh that's a good question I do remember and well nothing really changes does it because
0:32.2	I looked up pictures of cats.
0:34.0	Cats, very useful.
0:37.0	Anyway, do you think the internet has generally been positive or negative for the world?
0:41.0	Wow, now that is a big question. A huge question. I don't know if I can
0:46.2	answer that. Well one person who perhaps can answer it is the man who invented it, British
0:52.2	computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee.
0:54.7	We'll find out what he thinks has become of his child shortly,
0:58.2	but before that a question for you all.
1:00.6	When did Berners-Lee first suggest the idea for what would become the World Wide Web?
1:06.7	Was it A 1985, B 1989 or C 1991? 1991. Hmm.
1:14.0	Tricky, but I think it's earlier than people think, so I'm going to go for 1985.
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