The World Wide Web

The internet has become by far the fastest growing industry in the world since its introduction to the world in 1989. The internet is another example of how the world is using technology to make everything in life easier, and simpler. Any question you could possibly have is just a couple clicks away on the internet and that availability wasn't even an option about 20 years ago. Its amazing to see how our generation revolves around the internet while it is so new to the world. Its so funny to see our parents and grandparents struggling with all the new technology. They are busy searching through the newspapers for news while we just pull up a website and can search for anything of intrest and within seconds have hundreds of documents to look through. Even though it is so simple and second nature for us we sometimes fail to realize that our parents never grew up with these same tools that we have built our lives around. They couldn't just google their questions or map quest directions to their friends houses. This generation doesn't even think about how dependent we are on the internet. So many people will come home from school, check their facebook, stream music off the internet, play online games, and its amazing to think how little we appreciate this availability in our lives. Even now we are using this blog website for our classroom work in American Studies. Its so much simpler than writing every day in our journal and then at the end of the quarter checking everything in and having the teachers read it. Instead, we are able to just send the teachers a link and have them read it off our own website. I think that after doing alot of this research on technology is to realize how easy our lives have become based on the things that we have grown up with and appreciate them and not just take advantage of them. I think thoreau said something about with the invention of the cart men lost the ability of their feet. He was so true in saying this because we musnt lose our ability to function without the ability of the internet, computers, and phones.
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"World Wide Web." American History. ABC-CLIO, 2010. Web. 1 Feb. 2010. .