richj
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Most of us have been using the internet for a while now. I am very interested to hear how people think things have changed, why they have changed and how they will change.
I started using the net before google went public. Yahoo was my main search engine, and the results it pulled up were usually geocities pages that were graphic heavy. I had a 33kb/s modem so it could take a minute to load a simple page. The speed of peoples connections has incerased, and for a while it seemed every web page was flash based.
Then things changed towards providing more media like audio and video, take youtube as an example. They went from startup to google aquisition pretty quickly. Payment methods were developed ie. paypal, and market selling (ebay) and wholesale (amazon) became popular.
I have no idea where the internet is heading. As far as I can see it depends on the maintenance of net neutrality. If the internet is divided into teirs, will its advantage to humanity be handicapped?
I started using the net before google went public. Yahoo was my main search engine, and the results it pulled up were usually geocities pages that were graphic heavy. I had a 33kb/s modem so it could take a minute to load a simple page. The speed of peoples connections has incerased, and for a while it seemed every web page was flash based.
Then things changed towards providing more media like audio and video, take youtube as an example. They went from startup to google aquisition pretty quickly. Payment methods were developed ie. paypal, and market selling (ebay) and wholesale (amazon) became popular.
I have no idea where the internet is heading. As far as I can see it depends on the maintenance of net neutrality. If the internet is divided into teirs, will its advantage to humanity be handicapped?