The Internet Appreciation

This might be the most obvious blog post I shall ever write, but I do feel that a celebration about the internet itself is needed by me to express my gratitude for changing society for the better, despite that it has become accepted as one of the most normal things in the world.

10 years of internet usage have gone by for me personally, and I do not even know how many different pages I have visited since then. Just thinking about how large the internet right now is, and how larger it will become in the future, it certainly has beaten the amount of physical books through the ages by now. Reading through all of the pages on an average time of a human life is most likely impossible.

It's origins seems to have different sources, as I have read that CERN created it, but I also saw that the American military was conducting experiments with it in the middle of the 20th century, or simply any particular individiual person claims the invention towards him.

The whole social media, which is sort of a social and technological evolution within the internet, is only a temporary stage of many stages which have come and went by. The way of communicating has changed so many times already, from newsgroups, guestbooks and forums to instant messaging, walls and tweets.

Without a doubt, anyone with access towards it has been able to learn much, much more about the world and others residing in other countries. The information available beats any other kind because of it's massive amount of storage that grows ever larger.

Interacting and sharing stuff is also a vital way of using the internet. Pretty much all different kinds of media float around. So many breakthroughs and technological advancements have been made available thanks to this invention, because working together on achieving goals has never been so global like this.

Best of all, the internet is free to use. It is not governed by authority yet, only provided throughout the world. Hopefully this will remain the same, as I have been worried about SOPA, PIPA and ACTA in a previous blog already.

While it isn't perfect, and it has negative effects on various people, the positive effects far outweigh the negative ones, and for what it has done for us, I thank the people responsible for it's creation, and the people that continue to power it up with innovation, convenience and improvements, whoever they concisely are.

A funny trivia is that The Netherlands was the first European country which was given access towards the internet in November, 1988, the year I was born!