When i came for my lecture class two weeks ago (or so…) i was wowwed my lecturer told the class how much the internet has been evolving. It is said that web has developed firstly known as PC ERA…this is the time where Windows, MMO’s, MacOS were introduced to the world.
I remember when i was in Form 2, we had a computer club. Our seniors would teach us how to start the computer by inserting the limp-big-disket like into its driver before we can operate the PC. To my excitement, the screen only showed me lots of lots of and lots of green words with black background. Still i found it awsome.
Believe me when i say that at that time i imagined myself typing to an imaginary friend and having conversation with her just by typing through the screen. And it had made me laugh when in around 2007 i found that the scenario i was imagining finally became reality, and its called chatting! Hahaha! (Yeah, i know i was a little bit late to know the world of chatting…its not like i live in front of computers..)
Then there was the WEB 1.0 era…..
Remember the time where we surf the web to read..and read more? Without doing much. Yep! It was called Web 1.0 era. Then we have email, and cute GIF buttons on web pages, guestbook, publishing and many more. And some with good database skills would be grateful with the introduction of SQL at that time.
And of course we are at the WEB 2.0 era…and some parts of this world has already gone for Web 3.0…see how fast-scinating internet is? This is the era where we get to control our page according to our priority. You want to connect with friends from all over the planet, knock yourself out in http://www.friendster.com or http://www.myspace.com or whoa! there are hundreds of the same free service out there in the web. You got Flickr to share yout enthusiasm in photos, you got blog just like what i have here, you got Wikipidea, web services, e-commerce, internet banking, web portal and much more.
However, the fascination of an internet to one’s life is depends on several conditions. The bandwith for example, if you have slow connection at home, it would be enough to bring your spirit down to surf on youtube or doing your internet-banking for instance. I hated it so much when my broadband couldn’t works out well especially in non-3G area. And you will be surfing for nothing for hours.
Another condition is the the plug-ins. I once facing a problem opening pdf file from the internet. But once i installed the new version of Adobe Acrobate Reader, it’s all set and go. I bet there are loads of plug-ins people need to install before baing able to surf their heart out of the web.
And the last condition to be taken into consideration of the improvement of internet is of course the compatibality of a browser. The one i remember was Nestscape Navigator, and then of course Internet Explorer and since my Windows Vista is somehow having unsolved conflict with my I. E, i now prefer to use Mozilla Firefox.
Well, that’s all for now….by the way, the is a local movie called Pengembaraan Upin dan Ipin…or sum’thin like that. So, instead of watching those Isreal allies’ movie, let us watch Malaysian although i have waited for so long of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince to come out…blimey!
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