Asked by nig

Read the excerpt from "How the Internet and Other Technologies Came About."

Because most cities would no longer exist, messages would have to be broken up into pieces, scattered throughout the system, moved around cities that no longer existed, and then reassembled at the destination. ARPA combined these ideas with an existing system to create what is now called e-mail.

Which reading strategy would most help in comprehending the excerpt?
breaking it up into shorter sentences and phrases
continuing to read and hope it makes sense later
relating the content to personal experience
rewriting each line by hand

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
breaking it up into shorter sentences and phrases

This passage uses long, complex ideas in one sentence. Breaking it into shorter sentences (or phrases) makes the sequence of actions—messages broken into pieces, scattered through the system, moved around nonexistent cities, reassembled—clearer and easier to follow.