Rise of the Internet, A world transformer
The Internet has turned our existence upside down. It has brought a revolution in communications, to the extent that it is now the best medium of everyday communication. In almost everything we do, we use the Internet. Ordering a pizza, buying a television, sharing a moment with a friend, sending a picture over instant mess. Before the Internet, if you had to keep up with the news, you had to walk down to the newsstand when it opens in the morning. And buy a local edition reporting what had happened the previous day but today a click or two is enough to read your local paper and any news source from anywhere in the world, updated up to the minute.
The Internet itself has been transformed. Furthermore, In its early days which from a historical perspective are still relatively recent. Also it was a static network designed to shuttle a small freight of bytes or a short message between two terminals it was a repository of information where the content was published and maintained only by expert coders. However, immense quantities of information are uploaded and downloaded over this electronic leviathan, and the content is very much our own, for now, we are all commentators, publishers, and creators.
History of internet
In the 1980s and 1990s, the Internet widened in scope to encompass the IT capabilities of universities and research centers. Later on, on, public entities, institutions, and private enterprises from around the world. The Internet underwent immense growth. In addition to that, it was no longer a state-controlled project. But the largest computer network in the world, comprising over 50,000 sub-networks, 4 million systems, and 70 million users.
The emergence of web 2.0 in the first decade of the twenty-first century was itself a revolution in the short history of the Internet, fostering the rise of social media and other interactive, crowd-based communication tools. The emergence of web 2.0 in the first decade of the twenty-first century was itself a revolution in the short history of the Internet, fostering the rise of social media and other interactive, crowd-based communication tools.
Rise of internet
The rise of the Internet has sparked a debate about how online communication affects social relationships. The Internet frees us from geographic fetters and brings us together in topic-based communities. Moreover, it does not have a limit to any specific place. Ours is a networked, globalized society connected by new technologies. Well, The Internet is the tool we use to interact with one another, and accordingly poses new challenges to privacy and security.
Information technologies have wrought fundamental change throughout society, driving it forward from the industrial age to the networked era. In our world, global information networks are vital infrastructure—but in what ways has this changed human relations? The Internet has changed business, education, government, healthcare, and even the ways in which we interact with our loved ones. It has become one of the key drivers of social evolution.
The changes in social communication are of particular significance. Adding to that, analog tools still have their place in some sectors, new technologies are continuing to gain ground every day, transforming our communication practices and possibilities—particularly among younger people. The Internet has removed all communication barriers. Online, the conventional constraints of space and time disappear and there is a dizzyingly wide range of communicative possibilities. The impact of social media applications has triggered discussion of the “new communication democracy.”
The development of the Internet today has shape predominantly by instant, mobile communications. The mobile Internet is a fresh revolution. Comprehensive Internet connectivity via smartphones and tablets is leading to an increasingly mobile reality.