Thursday, November 10, 2011
The World Wide Web
I really enjoyed reading this text and found it a little humorous. This article goes into detail on how to basically use the Internet. They explain the basics like how to conduct searches or what is a URL. There was one part that said that if you havent experienced the World Wide Web, then you should try it. I find that statement really amusing, to think that at one point people had no idea how to use the Internet. Our generation has been exposed to this technology at such a young age that it has always been apart of our lives. I keep forgetting that my own parents had to live a chunk of their lives without this technology... how they survived, i am not quite sure. The Internet has completely changed the way we communicate. It has brought the world closer together making communication easier and more efficient. There are still things that I am not 100% knowledgeable about with the Internet; like i still really have no idea how to make a website; haha. I can only imagine how hard it must have been for people to adjust to using the Internet.
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Hey Giants Girl, I also found the article to be humorous in a way. The basic ideas that the article discusses is a bit OBVIOUS and silly, but that’s coming from a person who uses the internet on a consistent level. I had to keep reminding myself that the article was written in 1994, back then people were not using or depending on the internet as we do today. I agree with your opinion that the internet has changed the way we communicate. It has truly shrunk our world and now China doesn’t seem so far away. Of course, there are many things still to learn and there are many aspects to the internet that we might never fully understand. For example, as you stated, “I still really have no idea how to make a website.”
ReplyDeleteI agree, time has definitely made the article a bit humorous because it's dated, yet oddly relevant. I do think that the invitation to "try" the Internet seems strange, but probably no different than encouraging someone to "try" Thai food for the first time. Each experience is so unique that there are no promises of how one will react.
ReplyDeleteBut in the beginning, the World Wide Web was definitely a huge unknown. Having been old enough to experience the early adopter years of the 1990's I can tell you it was a monumental shift. In High School, searching the Dewey decimal system for micro phish that needed to be retrieved by the Librarian was a monumental task when trying to write a report at the last minute. So now, being able to cut my research down to a couple hours searching the web at home is a huge time-saver and it provides more information than any of us could ever read in a lifetime. So, you sum it up well when you make the observation that the Internet has made us closer and communication more efficient.
--CG