Put the verbs in brackets into Past Simple or Past Continuous. VKontakte People first learnt about social networks at the end of the 20th century. While western users 1) (receive) information from various sources, the Russian social network VK (short for VKontakte) 2) (appear). People who 3) (speak) different languages 4) (start) to use it, but especially popular it 5) (become) among Russian users. User registration was initially limited to university circles, but the site still 6) (grow) quickly. The number of people who 7) (want) to sign up 8) (become) bigger with each year. At the beginning of 2021 the VK website 9) (have) 97 million users all over the world and 10) (get) the 15th place in the sphere of its popularity.