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Different types of social change have had profound impacts on our lives. One specific example that has had changed our lives in the last twenty years is the expansion of the Internet. Simply put, the Internet is a network that links computer networks all over the world by satellite and telephone, connecting users with service networks such as e-mail and the World Wide Web.
The network gained a public face in the 1990s. In August 1991 CERN, which straddles the border between France and Switzerland publicized the new World Wide Web project, two years after Tim Berners-Lee had begun creating HTML, HTTP and the first few web pages at CERN. In 1993 the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign released the Mosaic web browser version 1.0, and by late 1994 there was growing public interest in the previously academic/technical Internet. By 1996 the word "Internet" was common public currency, but it referred almost entirely to the World Wide Web. This prolific technological advancement encouraged social change by interweaving cultures worldwide. In a world linked by sophisticated communication technology, change in one place often begets change elsewhere.
T he Internet has enabled a sudden and extreme decentralization of information and data, which otherwise would not be accessible by traditional means. This in itself lead to the Information Revolution. It has changed the way humans socialize, commence business, and reshapes how we view the world.
Entire industrial-capitalistic societies have endured this change and are based on the access of the Internet. The change has impacted my life inadvertently. Education and business that is normally conducted by interfacing is now available through the Internet. That means I can sit right here and still focus on gaining my education while conducting business at the kitchen table.
Craig's List, an online classified, was able to link me with an unusual ad. It was a person giving away an iguana, for free, and all I had to do was arrange a pick up date. We exchanged contacts via email, and that lead me to HarlemLive's new addition, Diesel .
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