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The World Wide Web (abbreviated as WWW or W3, commonly known as the Web, or the "Information Superhighway"), is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a web browser, one can view web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia, and navigate between them via hyperlinks.
Using concepts from his earlier hypertext systems like ENQUIRE, British engineer and computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee, now Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), wrote a proposal in March 1989 for what would eventually become the World Wide Web. At CERN, a European research organization near Geneva situated on Swiss and French soil, Berners-Lee and Belgian computer scientist Robert Cailliau proposed in 1990 to use hypertext "... to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will", and they publicly introduced the project in December.
In the May 1970 issue of Popular Science magazine Arthur C. Clarke was reported to have predicted that satellites would one day "bring the accumulated knowledge of the world to your fingertips" using a console that would combine the functionality of the Xerox, telephone, television and a small computer, allowing data transfer and video conferencing around the globe. Clarke also determined that geosyncronous orbit would be possible at the altitude of 22,000 miles, which is why that region is called the Clarke Belt.
Ice cubes are small, roughly cube-shaped pieces of ice, conventionally used to cool beverages. Ice cubes are sometimes preferred over crushed ice because they melt more slowly; they are standard in mixed drinks that call for ice, in which case the drink is said to be "on the rocks."
Ice cubes that are crushed or sheared into irregularly-shaped flakes may add an interesting aesthetic effect to some cocktails. Crushed ice is also used when faster cooling is desired, since the rate of cooling is governed by the number and average radius of the ice particles.
Melting ice cubes sometimes precipitate white flakes, commonly known as "floaties". This is calcium carbonate which is present in many water supplies and is completely harmless.[citation needed]
American physician and humanitarian John Gorrie built a refrigerator in 1844 with the purpose of cooling air. His refrigerator produced ice which he hung from the ceiling in a basin. Gorrie can be considered the creator of ice cubes, but his aim was not to cool drinks: he used the ice to lower the ambient room temperature. During his time, a dominant idea was that bad air quality caused disease. Therefore, in order to help treat sickness, he pushed for the draining of swamps and the cooling of sickrooms.
The Web
See myself, standing on this shelf
See this suitcase, it's loaded here to go
See these lines, well the years have taken time
What you've taken, you've given back as mine
Everything you see
That's caught in the web
Well it's caught it for me
You're letting out your heart
You're trading in your soul
And would you trade it for me
Cos I would trade it for you
See this hand, it's shaking like a loaded gun
See this water, it's turning into wine
See these brush strokes, they've painted it for me
And if you want, then one and one is three
Everything you see
That's caught in the web
Well it's caught it for me
You're letting out your heart
You're trading in your soul
And would you trade it for me
Cos I would trade it for you
Stream on stream, my champagne velvet dies
I've tasted venom, tasted spears, I almost fly
I'm scared of nothing, cos nothing's scared of me
I've fallen into this, all I need is one wish
And that's to know that
Everything you see
That's caught in the web
Well it's caught it for me
You're letting out your heart
You're trading in your soul
And would you trade it for me
Cos I would trade it for you
Everything you see
That's caught in the web
Well it's caught it for me
You're letting out your heart
You're trading in your soul
And would you trade it for me