It's amazing how much our society relies on the internet. Without it people couldn't really work from home or work with other companies hundreds of miles away by using
FTP or even
Video Conferencing. Not only are people able to work from a computer at their homes, but they can also carry a laptop and get internet almost in any heavily populated area. People can even buy a
wireless card from their cell phone company to plug into their computers so they can get internet anywhere their phone has service. And on the topic of phones, we can even use them to send emails to business partners or even turn in a file for school.
Really try and think hard about what we all used to do 10 years ago before the internet was the mega powerhouse it is today.
I'm trying my hardest to think about it, but I just can't seem to think how people were able to survive, because now it just seems like if there is no wireless internet or their cellphone isn't getting service then they might just die because they can't see what their friends are doing on
twitter,
myspace, or
facebook.
I'm kind of excited, yet nervous to see how we keep up with the changing internet in the next 5 years.
When I think about what I did without the internet ten years ago, nothing really comes to mind, but then again I was only 10 so I do not think that the internet was of much interest to me. I think back then I used the computer mostly for games and I remember I used Microsoft Encarta a lot. I like your point about being without a cell phone, I know I certainly would not know what to do without my phone. I freak out even if it is about to die on my and I am away from my house.
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