Blog # 2 - History of the Internet

Technology has developed so rapidly that society often takes it for granted. We sit and use phrases like "Google him" or "Facebook me" as if they are second nature. That was not always the case. Instead, as the video discusses, the Internet began as a device used by the military. While it makes sense that that type of technology connecting all different interfaces around the world would be beneficial to such groups, I had associated the Internet with mass media and business far more than the government. When thinking about its original purpose, it is amazing to think how far the form of technology has come.

When further discussing the process of the Internet's development it also left me to wonder how much farther we had to go. What else could the Internet do that it does not? We've left behind the days of using it for a necessary purpose, and instead now consider it not jut a convenience tool, but also a necessity. It is a wealth of knowledge, but there is concern that we may stray too far from the basics. For example, individuals can use the Internet to do almost any kind of research, watching any television program, download any music, that other mediums of entertainment and technology could become null and void. However, that would only hold back the Internet. As the video explains, it is the building on forms of technology already in existence that have made the Internet what it is today and the fact that, initially, no one expected such a brilliant form of technology to exist from a simple connection of interfaces.