Last week in class we had a discussion on the invention of the internet. We basically use the internet every day, but we never really knew all the work that was put into making it what it is today. In 1995 the internet had 16 million users, and by the next year that number had increased by more than half...and it was just invented only 20 years before. Each year the number of peoplem using the internet increased by more than the last. In 1997 ebay and amazon were both added to the internet. After this, the number of people using the internet sky rocketed. I would understand the reason for this. This was the start/foundation of online shopping. People could actually order things off the internet and get them shipped to their house with the simple push of a button.
Ultimately the internet basically took over ALL other media. THe other forms of media were greatly impacted (in a negative way) by the introduction of internet. Why watch shows on the t.v. when
I can watch them portablely on my phone? Why read the newspaper when I can go on the Courier Journal website and get all the stories from there? THe internet opened up many oppurtunites and made things alot easier for the people. Only want one song off of that new album? well you don't have to buy the whole thing anymore, get it from the internet! The news media, movies, radio, magazines, etc. could all be found of the internet now. This forced most media to demassify and focus on niche audiences.
One thing the internet did was eliminate privacy. Whatever people put on the internet, STAYED on the internet. Many people struggle with that today because we don't realize that anyone is capable of seeing the information we put out there, and it will never go away.
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