My Modern Internet

In the mid '90's the Internet had less than a handful of things to do with just about the same number of surfers. Chatrooms, the spark of .coms and a few resourceful sites. No biggy. It was all cool and fun. Nowhere near what the Internet means to people today. It seemed to be more of a hobby than the necessity it's become today. "According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, fewer than one in seven Americans were online in 1995. Today, the majority of Americans are surfing the Web, exchanging e-mail, reading bank statements and ball scores, checking the weather. Today, Pew says, two out of every three Americans spend time online." (The Internet Transforms Modern Life:Steve Almasay CNN.com)

Today I don't have to wait for my internet to be dialed into some bouncy response signal. In fact I don't need to hear my computer find its way onto the internet at all. I get it on demand, stealth mode. If it's slow a millisecond I'm wondering what the problem is. Seriously, what a snob. But that's how my modern internet is. It's quick, fast and in a hurry just like the way the internet has changed everyone's life these days.

Sadly, the Internet has taken the joy out of crumpling a newspaper each morning to soak in all the current events of the day. The news is now limited to the customized google searches I make each day. But there's almost unlimited resources out there to pick from from articles to videos to blogs. I can hear of monumental events through someones tweet where it hasn't been edited by someone's government. I can get news through the eyes of the people as well as from the establishments right when it's happening.

My mother used to spend quite a bit calling overseas and would sometimes hesitate on making the calls as a typical bill could get rather high. Today my mother, who up until recently wouldn't touch a computer, now Skype's with her relatives and I on a daily basis for free. My modern internet has allowed for immediate communication worldwide with emails being sent out by the millions each day and phone and video calls connecting people from all corners of the globe.

Oh and I can transfer money between my accounts, rent a movie, and order Chinese food with less than 5 clicks using a smart phone. MY MODERN INTERNET is mobile.