VOA慢速英语 电脑术语:今天你使用Google了吗?

　　电脑术语:今天你使用Google了吗？

　　Computer Terms: Have You Googled Someone Lately?

　　Terms that come from the world of computers. Transcript of radio broadcast: 18 April 2009

　　Now, the VOA Special English program, Words and Their Stories.

　　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 nineteen-sixties. 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.

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