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Computer technology has become a major part of people’s lives. This technology has its own special words. One example is the word mouse. A computer mouse is not a small animal that lives in buildings and open fields. It is a small device that you move around on a flat surface in front of a computer. The mouse moves the pointer， or cursor， on the computer screen.
Computer expert Douglas Engelbart developed the idea for the mouse in the early 1960s. The first computer mouse was a carved block of wood with two metal wheels. It was called a mouse because it had a tail at one end. The tail was the wire that connected it to the computer.
Using a computer takes some training. People who are experts are sometimes called hackers. A hacker is usually a person who writes software programs in a special computer language. But the word hacker is also used to describe a person who tries to steal information from computer systems.
Another well known computer word is Google， spelled g-o-o-g-l-e. It is the name of a popular “search engine” for the Internet. People use the search engine to find information about almost any subject on the Internet. The people who started the company named it Google because in mathematics， googol， spelled g-o-o-g-o-l， is an extremely large number. It is the number one followed by one-hundred zeros.
When you “Google” a subject， you can get a large amount of information about it. Some people like to Google their friends or themselves to see how many times their name appears on the Internet.
If you Google someone， you might find that person’s name on a blog. A blog is the shortened name for a Web log. A blog is a personal Web page. It may contain stories， comments， pictures and links to other Web sites. Some people add information to their blogs every day. People who have blogs are called bloggers.
Blogs are not the same as spam. Spam is unwanted sales messages sent to your electronic mailbox. The name is based on a funny joke many years ago on a British television show， “Monty Python’s Flying Circus.” Some friends are at an eating place that only serves a processed meat product from the United States called SPAM. Every time the friends try to speak， another group of people starts singing the word SPAM very loudly. This interferes with the friends’discussion—just as unwanted sales messages interfere with communication over the Internet.
鼠标是使用计算机必备的设备之一，那么鼠标和这一名称是怎么来的呢？尽管鼠标在19世纪80年代后才得到广泛应用，但它的历史最早可以追溯到19世纪60年代末，其发明者是美国斯坦福研究所的道格拉斯·恩格尔巴特博士。原始鼠标是极其简陋的，多用在与国防有关的关键场合。由于原始鼠标的尾部拖着一条数据连线，看起来像一只小老鼠，所以人们干脆直接称它为“mouse”，这就是“鼠标”的得名由来。
看过电影《黑客帝国》的读者对“hacker”一词一定不会陌生。“hacker”是“黑客”的意思，早期在美国的电脑界是带有褒义的，原指热心于计算机技术、水平高超的电脑专家，尤其是程序设计人员。而时至今日，这一单词已被用于指那些专门利用电脑网络搞破坏或恶作剧的家伙。
相信大家对“Google”并不陌生。作为全球知名跨国IT企业，它致力于互联网搜索、云计算、广告技术等领域，开发并提供大量基于互联网的产品和服务。1998年，Google由当时在斯坦福大学攻读理工博士的拉里·佩奇和谢尔盖·布鲁姆共同创建，至今已成为全球公认的最大的搜索引擎，也是互联网上五大最受欢迎的网站之一。关于Google名字的来历源于一个拼写错误。最初佩奇的学生肖恩·安德森想到了“Googol”一词，指的是10的100次幂，欲指互联网上可以获得的海量资源，但是当安德森在互联网域名注册数据库搜索的时候犯了拼写错误，“Google”便诞生了。如今，google也可以作为动词使用，例如“google某物”的意思是使用Google搜索引擎搜索某物。
如今微博盛行，但别忘了它的始祖——博客。博客的英文是“blog”，是“Web log”的缩写，一般指网络日志，又译为部落格，是一种由个人管理、不定期发表新的文章的网站。“blogger”指的是拥有博客的人，即我们通常所说的“博主”。
Spam最初是一个罐装肉的牌子，官方版本说是“Specially Processed Assorted Meat”的意思，也就是特殊加工过的混合肉。1970年，英国有一部很流行的系列喜剧短片，剧中两位顾客试图点一份没有Spam的早餐，但不能如愿。许多年后，spam便被用来指互联网上到处散布垃圾广告消息的现象。
Computer expert Douglas Engelbart developed the idea for the mouse in the early 1960s. The first computer mouse was a carved block of wood with two metal wheels. It was called a mouse because it had a tail at one end. The tail was the wire that connected it to the computer.
Using a computer takes some training. People who are experts are sometimes called hackers. A hacker is usually a person who writes software programs in a special computer language. But the word hacker is also used to describe a person who tries to steal information from computer systems.
Another well known computer word is Google， spelled g-o-o-g-l-e. It is the name of a popular “search engine” for the Internet. People use the search engine to find information about almost any subject on the Internet. The people who started the company named it Google because in mathematics， googol， spelled g-o-o-g-o-l， is an extremely large number. It is the number one followed by one-hundred zeros.
When you “Google” a subject， you can get a large amount of information about it. Some people like to Google their friends or themselves to see how many times their name appears on the Internet.
If you Google someone， you might find that person’s name on a blog. A blog is the shortened name for a Web log. A blog is a personal Web page. It may contain stories， comments， pictures and links to other Web sites. Some people add information to their blogs every day. People who have blogs are called bloggers.
Blogs are not the same as spam. Spam is unwanted sales messages sent to your electronic mailbox. The name is based on a funny joke many years ago on a British television show， “Monty Python’s Flying Circus.” Some friends are at an eating place that only serves a processed meat product from the United States called SPAM. Every time the friends try to speak， another group of people starts singing the word SPAM very loudly. This interferes with the friends’discussion—just as unwanted sales messages interfere with communication over the Internet.
鼠标是使用计算机必备的设备之一，那么鼠标和这一名称是怎么来的呢？尽管鼠标在19世纪80年代后才得到广泛应用，但它的历史最早可以追溯到19世纪60年代末，其发明者是美国斯坦福研究所的道格拉斯·恩格尔巴特博士。原始鼠标是极其简陋的，多用在与国防有关的关键场合。由于原始鼠标的尾部拖着一条数据连线，看起来像一只小老鼠，所以人们干脆直接称它为“mouse”，这就是“鼠标”的得名由来。
看过电影《黑客帝国》的读者对“hacker”一词一定不会陌生。“hacker”是“黑客”的意思，早期在美国的电脑界是带有褒义的，原指热心于计算机技术、水平高超的电脑专家，尤其是程序设计人员。而时至今日，这一单词已被用于指那些专门利用电脑网络搞破坏或恶作剧的家伙。
相信大家对“Google”并不陌生。作为全球知名跨国IT企业，它致力于互联网搜索、云计算、广告技术等领域，开发并提供大量基于互联网的产品和服务。1998年，Google由当时在斯坦福大学攻读理工博士的拉里·佩奇和谢尔盖·布鲁姆共同创建，至今已成为全球公认的最大的搜索引擎，也是互联网上五大最受欢迎的网站之一。关于Google名字的来历源于一个拼写错误。最初佩奇的学生肖恩·安德森想到了“Googol”一词，指的是10的100次幂，欲指互联网上可以获得的海量资源，但是当安德森在互联网域名注册数据库搜索的时候犯了拼写错误，“Google”便诞生了。如今，google也可以作为动词使用，例如“google某物”的意思是使用Google搜索引擎搜索某物。
如今微博盛行，但别忘了它的始祖——博客。博客的英文是“blog”，是“Web log”的缩写，一般指网络日志，又译为部落格，是一种由个人管理、不定期发表新的文章的网站。“blogger”指的是拥有博客的人，即我们通常所说的“博主”。
Spam最初是一个罐装肉的牌子，官方版本说是“Specially Processed Assorted Meat”的意思，也就是特殊加工过的混合肉。1970年，英国有一部很流行的系列喜剧短片，剧中两位顾客试图点一份没有Spam的早餐，但不能如愿。许多年后，spam便被用来指互联网上到处散布垃圾广告消息的现象。