pfazz
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What are the best day to day innovations to come from the Internet. I would suggest something like Google Earth for overall useability but can we have some suggestions.
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Internet milestones.
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Kippax.
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Youtube and Facebook
Barcon
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Bluemoon and Shadys blog. Anything else is for women.
Blue&whitestripes
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Bluemoon and Shadys blog. Anything else is for women.
Wot? Even the porn?
Barcon
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Wot? Even the porn?
Especially the porn. Gets em orny
Why Always Ste
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Data speed improvements - regular 16.6k dialups, then the 28.8k modems, was fucking awful waiting for minutes to connect, then minutes to get a webpage loaded up.
Now it takes minutes to download full hd movies.
Email
Blogging/Profile sites - allowing people to easily/readily add content with no knowledge of programming... Everybody is a journalist.
Web conferencing - easier to visually communicate with people all over the world in an instant, either work, family/friends and so on.
In general the world has become a much smaller place. You can become so much closer to people you would never of communicated with before.
if you don't speak their language then bang Google Translate comes into play.
My personal favourite is something like WikiPedia.
Yes not everything is %100 accurate, yes it is editable but in general I find it a invaluable resource and one which I visit a few times a day.
if there is something which I don't fully believe then a quick search on many other sites will usually verify the correct answer.
The evolution of the 'net will hopefully be with the help of much more powerful computers allowing the development of other dimensions/realities which you could partake in, like videogames are now but the graphics/process would be so powerful and online that you'll be say in a World War 2 game almost life like fighting against another human being who is also playing the same game but when you get killed you don't die, just restart it if you want (as you donow) but yea the graphics will be immense.
This would also come into play with shopping. you'll be walking around a trafford centre type experience when visiting Amazon
Now it takes minutes to download full hd movies.
Blogging/Profile sites - allowing people to easily/readily add content with no knowledge of programming... Everybody is a journalist.
Web conferencing - easier to visually communicate with people all over the world in an instant, either work, family/friends and so on.
In general the world has become a much smaller place. You can become so much closer to people you would never of communicated with before.
if you don't speak their language then bang Google Translate comes into play.
My personal favourite is something like WikiPedia.
Yes not everything is %100 accurate, yes it is editable but in general I find it a invaluable resource and one which I visit a few times a day.
if there is something which I don't fully believe then a quick search on many other sites will usually verify the correct answer.
The evolution of the 'net will hopefully be with the help of much more powerful computers allowing the development of other dimensions/realities which you could partake in, like videogames are now but the graphics/process would be so powerful and online that you'll be say in a World War 2 game almost life like fighting against another human being who is also playing the same game but when you get killed you don't die, just restart it if you want (as you donow) but yea the graphics will be immense.
This would also come into play with shopping. you'll be walking around a trafford centre type experience when visiting Amazon
Pokes28
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Forums has to be an obvious one. Bringing people together on their love of something in such a convenient way.
Forums weren't really an Internet innovation. Before Al Gore invented the Internet, there were newsgroups on local bulletin boards. Obviously not as convenient, but there are several site forums that were started before we were all digitally linked.
Social sites like MySpace/Facebook/Pinterest/etc. While I think most of it is just sad, I can honestly say that when my city was hit by an F5 tornado a few years back, Facebook was brilliant. While most people couldn't reach their loved ones that were in the path, the whole common family and friends allowed for those that did hear from them to post that they were OK. Less than 5 hours after, I knew that everybody that I cared about that was in it was fine. That would have been impossible without it.
Online banking/investing is HUGE. Bringing the ability to always keep tabs on everything you own at all times. Also brought the stock markets (good and bad) to the masses.
ChicagoBlue
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Knowing almost anything, from anywhere in minutes. The Encyclopedia Brittanica of everything is at your fingertips and there is almost no reason not to know how to do something, how something is done, who does it, why, etc, etc, etc...
Still blows my mind that I can ask a question on Google and within a fraction of a second it has hundreds of answers from a collective depository of knowledge and information that is almost unfathomable. And, as the "internet of things" builds out, people will lose sight of how life existed without the internet. My kids (17 & 18) have no REAL understanding of how life existed before the 21st century. It is as if they are hearing about things from history books when discussing how life was when I was growing up in the late 60s and 70s!
In short, the world comes to them in any form they want, whenever they want. THAT, for me, is the miracle of the Internet...the world in my hand!
Still blows my mind that I can ask a question on Google and within a fraction of a second it has hundreds of answers from a collective depository of knowledge and information that is almost unfathomable. And, as the "internet of things" builds out, people will lose sight of how life existed without the internet. My kids (17 & 18) have no REAL understanding of how life existed before the 21st century. It is as if they are hearing about things from history books when discussing how life was when I was growing up in the late 60s and 70s!
In short, the world comes to them in any form they want, whenever they want. THAT, for me, is the miracle of the Internet...the world in my hand!