Internet is one of the worlds primary source of communication and information over the years the internet has evolved but there are some concepts that stay the same. The persistence of the internet and the rules of communication for computers. This is also called protocols which was created by computer scientists to assist and control online communication for example, Facebook. People can communicate with each other but only through acceptance of protocols.   

In the early 1970’s, a corporation called RAND created the hub-and- spoke model which allowed users to send secure voices messages. It was called the hub-and -spoke because the telephone operator (hub) would connect two people (spoke) directly. During the Cold War, the United States military was concerned about a nuclear attack destroying this model.  1973, the development of the early internet called (ARPANET), there were four hosts UCLA, Stanford, UC Santa Barbara, and the University if Utah. Today, the internet has over a half of million hosts. Hosts can use protocols to be able to connect to the network of computers. In 1974, came about the TCP(Transmission Control Protocol) gateway. It’s like a postal service, without a specific address (IP address) you can’t contact that computer. The TCP is an important development for the interlinking of networks.

Email was originally an electronic message that were recorded on a computer system. Everyone had their personal folder, if you wanted to send a message you would create it in their folder.  Once the internet started to evolve email became more difficult.  Ray Tomlinson developed a system with using the @ symbol to indicate what server such as outlook, gmail, yahoo, etc.

In the 1989’s, Tim Berners-Lee and a software engineer worked together to design a different protocol to distribute documents and information throughout the local network.  Which is called the Web 1.0 this internet is creating a hypertext language (HTML) which goes above and beyond the boundaries of a single document like before. Tim Berners-Lee created his own browser named America Online. This service engages over 20,000 people, AOL had a chat room and instant messenger.

Social media can be a good thing, you can keep in touch with people within the whole world and blogs are speeding up the information on the internet which gives us a range of opinions, but news organizations can harness the bloggers sources of real time news which solves a problem that called crowdsourcing. With a positive there has to be a downside, which is news aggregators google news makes a profit off of taking journalists stories and linking them to newspapers or advertising  but they keep their profits it is not shared with the journalists.

The film Generation Like talks about todays internet and what teenagers are doing and how its affect the internet and companies. Teenagers today are putting themselves out there on an online profile for everyone to see.  A group of teenagers said that your profile is how you want people to see you and the cover photo shows your personality. The likes, follow, retweets show what is cool it shows a vulnerability for companies to take advantage of it. This is the biggest transformation with communicating with consumers in our lifetime. Companies can track people movements what they like and who their closest friends are. Also, they are taking that data and turning it into money. Teenagers do not understand the value in pictures and getting people to like their posts.  Sending a tweet, you are helping raise the value of twitter around 30 billion dollars, Facebook is around 142.23 billion its base on the volume of likes they can generate.

When I was a child advertising on tv was heavy. I wanted all the toys, but my parents told me what you get is not what is showing. The dolls are not moving by themselves, so the toys did not cool after all. Years past and I got a camera for Christmas, I would record myself is a goofy way on what is happening in my life every day. I loved being in pictures, I wanted that fame. Then I got a flip phone to take photos of other people or myself and those moments were pretty funny, I was cute and my voice was adorable when I look back on the videos, it truly showed how comfortable I was with myself the confidence of what I wore or what I was doing. At that age it did not matter what was cool or not it was based on your likes.  When I got older, I was the shy girl. I did not have a lot of friends and in 5^th grade when I found out I had genetic cancer on top of my dyslexia. My confidence went down, I hit rock bottom at such a young age. I was bullied because I was different, and I hated myself I did not want to be at school, nor did I want to show my face around anyone I knew. At the point of my life I was not on any social media there was no way for me to connect without anyone behind a screen. By the time I was in middle school, even the school treated me different and I was pissed about it so I changed how they treated me I fought for what I wanted and knew I could do it. Those years I had some friends but I only had friends because of the bad life choices I made which made me look cool but after on in my years I had a bad reputation even though other people weren’t doing it but I wasn’t getting a lot of likes on my Instagram or Facebook so it was an negative affect on me than someone that’s getting hundreds of likes.

When I look at today with social media, we are not respecting each other there is always some trash talk on news, memes, social media, advertising, and much more. It is sad to think that we, Americans cannot get along as a country. Social media, or the news is not helping the situation either, we lost an Alfred university student because of it and it’s only hurt ourselves.  We might as well be at war with each other, America has not what I imagined when I was a kid.