homework

Jamie Galligan
A2 media homework - past and future of the internet.

The internet has changed so much as a result of the introduction of Web 2.0. Web 2.0 has gained the internet millions more users as it has made it more user friendly, gave users more control of its content and opened many different uses for the internet. Web 2.0 has brought about attributes such as blogging, media streaming, social networking and tagging. As a result of this the internet is now a much brighter simpler and more user friendly service and its regularly updated and edited by everyday people. Web 2.o has made sites such as youtube and other media streaming sites possible which have transformed the computer into major for home entertainment. The internet is built up of a number of components which all work together in a cycle to achieve its purposes. Many household and everyday aplliances are linked to some form of the internet, many you wouldn’t expect such as washing machines and cars and others which have been created and improved to be enabled to access the internet such as mobile phones and gps systems. The internet has become a large part of everybodies lives playing a large role in jobs and home life. The internet is always being enhanced and improved and it is hard to predict what in may hold in the future but going on its progress in the past years it will never cease to improve, grow and change shape.
The internet technology in this day and age is unrecognisable compared to the earlier versions. What we take for granted this year would not of even been imagined in the past. The internet was created in 1957 and was named arbanet. At this stage computers could only work on one task at a time which was called batch processing and proved to be very ineffective. At this time technology in computers was very young and everything was of a much more basic form of that today. Although the machines were nowhere near as powerful as the computers today they were a lot bigger and because of their size and the ways in which they were made required their own cooled room to stop them over heating and they required a lot of manual work to be done on them regularly by specialists as they were extremely prone to bugs and virus’s.