Monday, March 19, 2007
2nd Flattener
The second flattener started, in 1990, with the invention of the Internet. All the PC-Windows network revolution, was converted into an Internet-based platform. The application that made the second flattener possible was e-mail, and Internet browsing. E-mail was being supported by AOL, CompuServe, and MSN. Although e-mail played a big role in flattening the world, World Wide Web (WWW) flattened the world even more. Thanks to WWW, now people could retrieve documents from anywhere in the world. Although many scientists were making browsers for the public, the first major browser was created by small start-up company in Mountain View, California, which was called Netscape. Thanks to Netscape which started in 1995, the world started to change very quickly. In 1993 there were only about 50 web pages, but now there are more than imaginable. An example of Internet-browsing would be, typing an address like, www.msn.com, you would get a document in English, but when you type, es.msn.com, you get a document in Spanish. WWW made it possible for you to access any information, form anywhere, and this helped to make the world flat. If we didn't have WWW, it would have been very hard to do research like on UbD, or on the Conflict paper quickly, because it would take us a long time to do the research from the books.
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7 comments:
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Yeah a gree with you robi. You made it very clear about the Internet. But i dont think the Internet is a bad thing, or else we would have to do UBD out of a book. :(
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ok bye and good job !
I agree with what you say and I think that the world wide web is the biggest flattener because without the internet and the web browsers it would be really hard to communicate and to do research and it would be impossible to do what we are doing now. Great job,I think that you explained your flattener really well.
yea I agree Robi. Very good examples such as UBD and the WWW (world-wide-web). I think you explained the flattener very well. Good job
Good Job, I understand completely. Nice examples at the end but we could still probably use books....
Good Job..
~BAKER~
i think you explained your flattner very well. I also agree with Kristine---the internet is not a bad thing--because it's really useful
~niyata~
this is a very good post. This is very informative and easy to understand. In the first sentence you say "Internet" twice. Besides that it is very good and concise.
I learned a lot from this post. Good job!
I understand what you said. you explained it well and i didn't know that if you type in es.msn.com, it's in spanish.
Natasha
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