The Internet, a whole new world in progress
Do you remember the days when we used to say that people watch too much TV? Well those days are practically gone! Now, kids and adults don’t spend they’re time watching television, they spend it on the Internet! Why look at movies on TV, when there are millions of them on YouTube? Why watch the news on that brand new flat screen TV or that super radio system, when you can Google it? For God’s sake, people don’t even read the newspaper anymore, because practically all of them (Gazette, Journal de Montréal, New York Times, Metro, etc.) have a website. Actually, all companies have a website.
There are over 1.7 billion Internet users in the world, 0.7 billion coming from Asia. 156 million websites have been created since 1995. Internet has been invented in the 1950s in USA for military reasons and was developed by many specialists. Actually, contrarily to what some believe, Internet was not created by someone in particular or a company. It has been imagined, conceived, developed and improved by many people between 1950 and 1990. But the real Internet, the one we know now, was officially made public in the 1990s. And that was the beginning of a whole new world.
Indeed, since Internet was created, the world, the culture, the lifestyles have changed, as well as the technology and our way of communicating. Ah yes: communication. Actually, that was the whole point of Internet, which was to be able to communicate easier. Just think about it. Where would we be without email, MSN and Facebook? Now, when we want to say something, we use the Web a lot. We have to work on a project? We’ll talk about it on MSN. We have to get in touch with old friends? We use Facebook. Now, we can even see the other person on Webcam! Let’s face it: we barely even need the phone anymore!
Another thing about the Internet: it created jobs. Whole companies have been created on the Web and most of them are dependent of it. If you want a concrete example: eBay. PayPal. We buy things on the Internet and we get them through mail. Or think about all those Internet providers. Videotron, Bell, TELUS, Rogers. A big part of these businesses live of Internet. They get money because you need it.
People spend about 13 hours per week on the Internet, though teenagers spend 30. 30: that means that teens spend more than a day online every week, thus 17% of the week. Anyhow, we’re starting to be more interested in the Web than we are in watching TV. We actually have to start being careful not to become too dependent.
The Internet has changed the world we know, it even created its own world, the one we all call the World Wide Web. We do everything on it. We can communicate, work, learn, have fun and create. We can work on our passions: we can write, publish photos, make videos and edit videos. The Internet has changed our lives and is still changing it.
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