Choose two lines or sets of lines from the text that support the claim using specific evidence. A) By the late 1990s, however, most Americans were surfing the net—and they didn’t even need an ocean!

B) Your grandparents probably didn’t have the Internet when they were kids. Even though the Internet has been around since 1969, it took years before the Internet was widely used in homes.

C) Blog is the shortened version of the term Weblog, which is an online journal. If you took a time machine back to 1993 and told someone that you had been blogging—or writing on your blog—he wouldn’t understand.

D) More than twenty years ago, a net was known only as something people used to catch fish. Birds tweeted, but people didn’t. Cookies were a delicious treat. A mouse was a type of rodent and a monitor was a type of lizard—and neither one could help you with your homework.

E) So the next time you are browsing on your Blackberry—not the type of fruit you bake into a pie, but your handheld wireless device used to navigate the Web—think about the way that technology influences the language you’re using today. You may be surprised by the number of technological terms in your vocabulary!