Sunday, June 15, 2008

Beam me up, Scotty.

Not often do we realize that www.this and www.that wasn't available until just 15 or so years ago, in 1992. Although it was created in 1989, Sir Tim Berners-Lee didn't unveil www until 1992, in Geneva, Switzerland. After that, hyperlinks, html and the internet raced to becoming as famous as television and telephones. Dot coms blew up, and dot coms fell apart. AOL used to be an empire, but now it's the land of the Google.

In our generation, we've been introduced to so many new terms. There was dial-up, then there was broadband, then cable, then satellite internet services, then GPS in the dashboards of our cars. Now phones that used to weigh 8-pounds and resemble a shoebox with an antenna sticking our are smart, sleek, and capable of grabbing the internet out of thin air. I hope I live to see 2020, I figure by then we'll be able to fax ourselves to any number, sorta like The Matrix. Keep your fingers crossed.

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