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From the Ted Talk by Danny Hillis: The Internet could crash. We need a Plan B

Unscramble the Blue Letters

So just to give you an idea of the level of tusrt in this coutinmmy, let me tell you what it was like to rtseiger a domain name in the early days. Now, it just so happened that I got to register the third domain name on the Internet. So I could have anything I wanted other than bbn.com and symbolics.com. So I picked think.com, but then I thought, you know, there's a lot of really interesting names out there. Maybe I should register a few eatxrs just in case. And then I thought, "Nah, that wouldn't be very nice."

Open Cloze

So just to give you an idea of the level of _____ in this _________, let me tell you what it was like to ________ a domain name in the early days. Now, it just so happened that I got to register the third domain name on the Internet. So I could have anything I wanted other than bbn.com and symbolics.com. So I picked think.com, but then I thought, you know, there's a lot of really interesting names out there. Maybe I should register a few ______ just in case. And then I thought, "Nah, that wouldn't be very nice."

Solution

  1. trust
  2. extras
  3. community
  4. register

Original Text

So just to give you an idea of the level of trust in this community, let me tell you what it was like to register a domain name in the early days. Now, it just so happened that I got to register the third domain name on the Internet. So I could have anything I wanted other than bbn.com and symbolics.com. So I picked think.com, but then I thought, you know, there's a lot of really interesting names out there. Maybe I should register a few extras just in case. And then I thought, "Nah, that wouldn't be very nice."

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Important Words

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