The Web Is A Magical And Mysterious Place

In his essay “The Net Is a Waste of Time,” novelist William Gibson analyzes the hidden potentials of the Internet in both its vastness and affect on society. He writes this piece at the dawn of the Internet, and during this undeveloped phase, he discusses its multitude of facts as is and will be. As hinted in the title of his essay, Gibson takes the stance that the Internet at its early stages is a waste of time -- an impressively large and complex waste of time -- but a waste of time nonetheless. He is ultimately concerned with how we are choosing to procrastinate through the Internet, and that our growing attachment and dependence on the Internet reveals a “fatal naïveté” (697) about us. Gibson also brings up the true enormity of the Web even at its premature standing, detailing how “the content of the Web aspires the absolute variety. One might find anything there. It is like rummaging in the forefront of the collective global mind” (697). Despite his concerns on what the Web might become, Gibson realizes that at the time of his writing, the Web was at a stage much like the larval stage of a butterfly’s life -- seems unassuming, but as he himself puts it, “The Web is new, and our response to it has not yet hardened” (697), and that there are “big changes afoot” (696).

as the rest of us rush to keep plugged in The more forward-looking view is to accept the role of the Web as a mind-expander and wonder not at the bad but at the good it can do us” (Do Not Fear the Cybermind).

The Web is structure on the idea of sharing, for the most part for free. This evens the playing field to everyone with a computer, a phone, and/or a tablet and the connection to the internet. This means the average person has a platform and an audience, something that has never happened before until recently.

Although, the internet has only been around for 20 years, it is sincerely very hard to imagine a life without it. We are constantly using it in our everyday life. At school work, home. We use it to “be foraging in the Web’s info-thickets reading and writing e-mails, scanning headlines and blog posts, watching videos and listening to podcasts, or just tripping from link to link to link.”( Carr, 3) It has become such a big part of our everyday lives that not been able to connect with it is like living in the desert. And it has taught us how to do things in many different ways, such as studying.

In this day and age you can find almost anything online. You can access the web from your laptop, your phone, even your game consoles and televisions. We were born in a time where the web was always there for our convenience, but how many of us actually know where it all started? The biggest tool in our society was created in 1989 by the man known as Tim Berners-Lee.

When discussing the motivations of people who spent their free time on the web during the 1990s, Maignan and Lukas state, “Most of the time, respondents remained vague as to the exact nature of the information gathered and indicated that they were looking for information in general, without any defined purpose.” In order to fit in with society, many people desired to take part in the phenomenon of the Internet during the 1990s. This fascination with the web, however, led people to search for freedom from boredom online instead of with their companions. This negatively impacted the psychological atmosphere of American society at this time because people became dependent on the Internet for entertainment, even though its use often only led to pointless searches. Internet users were easily irritated when the worldwide web did not live up to its renowned reputation: “Compared to experienced Internet users, the novices engaged in more aimless surfing, were less successful in finding information, and were more likely to report feeling a souring of affect over the course of their sessions.” The Internet became known for its quick and easy access to information, and users expected it to perform without flaws. As a result, patience was lost and replaced with a newfound desire for instant results due to the introduction of the web. In turn, this led to the development of shorter

The internet allowed people to self-publish, giving individuals a global voice. It’s a global market place for commercial enterprises and gives many people to luxury of working from home instead of going out. The world wide web saved the internet, it changed its appearance and made it possible for pictures and sound to be displayed and exchanged.

When the internet is mentioned, it is hard not to think of the World Wide Web. The Web has become such a staple in our everyday lives that it is hard for us to think of life without it. For most of us, losing the web would be the equivalent of going back to the Stone Age. How could our species go back to a time in which everything we know isn’t stored online? We couldn’t. That’s why we must give a little thanks to the man behind the curtain, Tim Berners-Lee.

The internet has become a part of every day life, in fact for many it is their life. You can meet other people, play games, do research, communicate with loved ones half way across the country, and now you can even shop and bank online.

The Internet is a treasure trove of information; which offers knowledge on any given topic under the sun (Pakhare, 2013). In other words, the World Wide Web was designed to be the ultimate library with its wide range of knowledge with just a click of a button away. The author proclaims that “For those who are pressed for time, stressed for resources or don’t have access to the books and ephemera found in larger cities, the Internet is a heaven sent blessing of inestimable magnitude” (Kellner, 2004, p. 13). Yes, we both owe the Internet our lives. More often than not, we have used the Internet as a guiding tool that has helped us get the information we need such as research for assignments, locating restaurants and so on. But in a copious society where people have cell phones, laptops, iPads, and minds like vacant rooms that are all connected to the Internet, we still walked around with books. For us, we would always rather prefer to search library stacks because it is easier to commemorate when we put in an effort to learn

The web has change our lives in many ways we didn’t think were possible we now have access to any type of information we can imagine. The web allows us to keep in touch with friends and relatives hundreds of miles away and actually see them speaking to you, using webcams. It’s the closest thing we can have to actually speaking to them in person and the technology will soon evolve into hologram projectors. Communication and trading knowledge is one the most important aspects in the development of the human race, we need each other so we learn from one another and sometimes we just need a person to keep us company. The web makes our lives easier, its there to serve us as much as it can and the possibilities for what it can do for us are endless. Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989 and created the first web browser one year later, The original web, Web 1.0 was only a one-way form of communication (read only web), the web would give information to the viewer but he could not respond back or leave his point of view. The things you could do with the web at this point were very minimal comparing to todays standards, none the less it was still a huge breakthrough in technology and application such as email and search engines open the door to whole new world of communication and information.

The Internet has created a generation of the most efficient multi-taskers ever born. Many people will have at least four tabs open as a time (Google, Facebook, Youtube, Pandora, Wikipedia, Gmail, etc.). People are constantly jumping from one web page to the next, clicking on links and opening new tabs and browsers. The method through which knowledge is gained has transitioned from deep reading to fast skimming. Every time a web page is opened the viewer is bombarded with information, almost every page has advertisements or links to additional information lining its sides. The Internet has made mountains of information available to almost anyone. It is fast and easy to find information and facts. Essentially the Internet has become the fast

In the early 1990s, the World Wide Web was developed, primarily for commercial purposes. Corporations created websites where they could place text and graphics to buy and sell products, as well as market their business without having to speak directly to people. Anything that a possible client or customer wanted to know was now at their fingertips being displayed on computer screens and showing a

As the web grew, this particular vision was lost — at least in part. But you’d have to say that the web still exceeded expectations. In 2010, according to the International Telecommunication Union, close to a third of the world’s population was using the web, and after beginning life as a means of merely sharing text, it has evolved into a medium that shares everything from audio to video to entire software applications that in

The history of the World Wide Web was created on August 6th, 1991 by Tim Berners-Lee. (Bryant, 2012). Due to the creation of the World Wide Web, many things have changed. Websites have made everything either easier or more complicated. But, we will talk about the easier this world has gotten. Some websites that have made life easier are Facebook, Strayer University, Amazon, EBay, Google, Gmail, Yahoo, PayPal, Walmart, Schwan’s, Myspace, Pogo, Trip Advisor, and Home Chef. These are just to name a few of the websites that have made our lives easier.