The internet is this massive cloud of data that allows us to access amounts information that we can barely fathom. You can use the internet to search for recipes to instructions to discoveries, the list is endless.
Having access to online information opens you up to knowledge and information that could allow you to conquer any topic you choose. This online phenomenon started in 1969, when the ARPAnet delivered its first message; this was the first “node-to-node” communication from one computer to another. This online world began to grow and develop leading to Tim Berners-Lee in 1991 creating the World Wide Web, not only allowing messages and information to be sent from one place to another, but a ‘web’ of information that anyone has access to – which makes the internet 10139 days old today! To find out more about the internet’s history click here.
Now, the internet has around one billion websites you can access and visit meaning it can become your reference for anything. In the modern age where you can ‘Google’ anything at the tap of a finger. Each query that you put into Google uses 1,000 computers in 0.2 seconds to retrieve an answer. It’s phenomenal to think that is what goes into the most popular word search being ‘weather’!
That means that if you want to go somewhere and find a location, you can look online. It means that if you want to make something new for dinner but don’t know how, you can search for a recipe online. It means that if you are even trying to decide what career path to take or what university to attend, you can find all this information online.
Some critiques have been produced to this fountain of information, such as book sales taking a massive plunge as the sales of ebooks rise due to the access to online information being easier than ever. However, with the easy access to eBooks and saving the paper used as production numbers go down, is it a negative or an evolution of a market?
The immediacy of having the information at your finger tips is something that the generation of millennials are so used to and possibly take for granted. You can lean so many new skills online and some you can even do for free! Here’s the list:
- Learn to code at CodeAcademy
- Learn a language at Duolingo
- Learn microeconomics on Khan Academy
- Or even talk to an inmate at Meet-An-Inmate
The existence of the internet has given us an unbelievable access into the information of all people, from science to ancient history to the arts, they can all be accessed online.
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