Blog Post #2: History of the Internet

Every so often, I look around myself and think, "Holy crap, we're living in the future." Even though I then have to remind myself that it's not the future until we have flying cars, the statement stands. I doubt what we can do with ease today would have appeared in anyone's wildest dreams 50 years ago. No one said to their friend, "I say dear chap, one day people shall use handheld gadgetry to access large sums of knowledge by connecting to invisible waves permeating the air surrounding them." (Note, it is my belief that everyone in the past talked like this, no matter the period.)

15 years ago, the internet was there, but no one could really find anything without some degree of difficulty. 10 years ago, we had Google, but we were largely confined to corded net access. 5 years ago, we had more widespread Wi-Fi, but we couldn't really get on it without a capable computer. Now, I could go to just about any city in the world, stumble around drunk and broke for a few days, or even weeks, and then just whip out a Kindle and use cellular web access, combined with Wikipedia and WikiTravel, to find anything I could need. Isn't the future grand?