Blog A

The media that I use most is the internet. Rumor has it that Al Gore was the person behind the creation of internet. However, I feel that it is simply just that- a rumor. While reading Chapter 2 of Hanson, I found that AOL bought Time Warner. Time Warner came from the owners of Time magazine and Warner Communications, “which had grown out of the Warner Brothers movie studio”(Hanson pg 42). Luckily for AOL, Time Warner owned some cable stations too! The next thing you know the internet is available through cable, which is much faster than dial up; the screeching sounds are a thing of the past.
Going even deeper into the past of the internet, I read that it was mainly used for communication for the military and some business offices. They truly knew the benefits of communication through the internet and finally decided to share it with the rest of the world. Each and everyday the internet is changing. New websites have been known to cause a change in people’s leisure activities. Before some people may have spent their time surfing chat rooms, blogspots, or online journals, but with the birth of Myspace and Facebook the need for some of those sites has dwindled.
Time magazine has made the person of the year, “you”, because people are spending most of their time doing things for themselves. I would say the internet is mainly run by its consumers. It is up to consumers to find websites they are interested in, and continue using them. Companies have found way to add “spam” to our email, or have pesky “pop-ups” while we are surfing the net, but there are programs manufactured to cut back on that interference. The internet has changed society and allowed the world to become global.