The Birth Of The Internet

Social media plays an important role in the communication of thoughts, ideas and informaton and has become a significant aspect among many people. Its influence has extended across the world with thousands of users consuming it everyday from various parts of the globe. Social media has developed a significant change as opposed to previous methods of communication such as fax and mail.

One of the most important people in the founding of the Information Age would probably be Gordon Moore. From his work at Shockley Semiconductor to his founding of Intel, Moore has probably done more for the Information Age than anyone else: his contributions include mass-producing the transistor, making integrated circuits viable, and founding Intel to create these ICs. Throughout it all, he maintained an optimism and can-do attitude that allowed him to shape our world into what it is today.

Web 2.0 is a term given To describe the second stage of the world wide web with this version being based on user interactivity and the sharing of data online and it is also more user friendly than the previous version of world wide web. Web 2.0 was first introduced in 2004. Some examples of Features of web 2.0 include things like web applications; web applications can now be ran straight from the web browser due to web 2.0’s user interactivity. Other features include social network, face book twitter and blogs

The development of new technologies that have emerged since the mid-1990s has led to Internetbased applications known as “social media” that enable people to interact and share information

The present society of today embodies a distinct shape, organization, role, and feel from the societies of a millennium ago, a century ago, or even a decade ago. These metamorphoses are, in part, caused by the multiple technological revolutions that our society has experienced throughout its history. Each time a technological revolution occurs—when a novel technology is introduced to build upon or succeed an older one—the entire society (and the individuals that comprise it) changes. However, as Marshall McLuhan suggested within the printed pages of Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, “the medium is the message” (McLuhan 1964). In other words, these shifts are not as much the direct result of the invention’s content or it’s use, as they are the outcomes of effects that are intrinsic within the technology itself. Although McLuhan published this work in 1964, almost thirty years before the invention of the World Wide Web, this adage still holds true for the Internet today.

     The internet has come a very long way in the past 50 years. New inovations such as integrated software and hardware has changed the way that poeple view and obtain information today. The internet is a global computer network connecting millions and millions of users throughout the world. "It is a network connecting many computer networks and is based on a common addressing system and communications protocol."It has become one of the fastest growing forms of communication today(Encyclodpedia Britannica 1999).

The world has never before been connected as much as it is today. One’s ability to communicate through various mediums is rapidly advancing, and this is much thanks to social media.

When one thinks of social media one of the first things that comes to mind is an application such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Tumblr and many other applications that allow one to share information on the internet. So taking that into consideration one can deduce that social media is any application or website that allows one to share information about them or about other things on the worldwide web in real-time. Before social media people wrote letters, sent telegrams or used Morse code. Writing letters and use of Morse code is being applied in some parts sending telegrams was phased out. Social media came with the advent of the modern technological age at the turn of the century. It is with the birth of computers, the internet, and the modern phone that social media took off. Of course with the coming of social media, many ripple effects were felt. Some of the effects were positive. Case in point, information is shared instantaneously and in real-time across the whole globe. The world has been transformed into one global village because of social media. As all things have yin and yang, social media came with a number of side effects; effects that shall be espoused in this paper.

Using various Web 2.0 tools such as Blackboard, Twitter, blogs and online media, students in the Bachelor of Internet communications Unit Web101 discussed a variety of topics over the course of thirteen weeks. These topics ranged from the advent of the Internet to the current shift towards the connective experiences of Web 2.0. This reflection will cover a selection of some of the better known Web 2.0 platforms and tools covered in the unit, the way in which these enhance collaboration and communication, and some of the ways in which this might have the potential to impact upon the everyday user.

WEB 2.0 is a world wide web platform on which a user can access to applications such as blogs, social networking sites.

Before the the Internet was created, linking the world, human beings were already thinking with a connected mind. While messages obviously were unable to be transferred electronically, humans invented different ways to trade information and news with other people.

The great wave of web innovation since Google in 1998 has been in social media. Social

When it comes to the ever-evolving world we live in today, the future of technology and the Internet and the way in which it will be embedded into our lives is inevitable. The transformation of the Internet has definitely evolved within the past decade, this shows how much potential the Internet has to further develop. Web 2.0 is currently what is commonly used on the Internet and it is predicted that Web 3.0 will be a new era for the web. Web 3.0 can be defined as an online environment integrating users’ data to create new meaning (Barassi, 2012, p.1270).

The Web 2.0 not only allow user to retrieve information from the web pages or the Internet it also allows to create a user account or a profile on a site and which will help in increased participation on the website. Web 2.0 or “the Social Web” was an effort to provide and enable individuals from all around the world to participate in content creation and sharing, and to

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