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THE EVOLUTION OF TECHNOLOGY: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
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THE EVOLUTION OF TECHNOLOGY: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
OLIVER C. MARCELO
12- DEMETER
All technologies are born out of purpose. For example, search engines were created to sort through the massive amounts of data online. With each new upgrade technology compounds existing technologies to create something better than what was previously used before. And on and on it goes.
With the lightning speed of technological evolution, it is no wonder many people have struggled to keep up. To be fair, the scope of technology’s expanse is so great, wrapping everything up into a single blog post is practically impossible.
Here is just a brief glimpse into how rapidly the Internet and technology as a whole have evolved in recent years.
PURPOSE DRIVES TECHNOLOGY FORWARD
Looking back to the 1990’s, the Internet was a new commodity many, but not all, households and businesses began to gain access. For people living during that time, the sound of the painfully slow dial up signal connecting to the Internet is a not-so-fond memory.
Thankfully, as more people found value in the Internet, technology took off to eliminate having to use a phone line to go online and instead delivered faster connections to the World Wide Web.
THE PAST: WORLD, MEET THE INTERNET
WEBSITES AND BLOGGING ARE BORN
Websites advanced along with the internet. Suddenly, everyone had a Geocities or Tripod website dedicated to themselves. Just in infancy, websites were basic in both function and design. This is also the time when the blogging craze started to set in on the consumer level with the introduction of “weblogs” (later condensed to “blogs”). Remember Xanga? If only we knew then what we know now.
A few years later, sharing information gradually started to become easier. Instead of handing over a floppy disc or CD-ROM, people began emailing documents or storing large files on USB sticks or flash drives.
As new technologies started to pop-up, each technology would compound and build to form a better, faster and stronger piece of technology. With this speedy development, the Internet changed the way people live, work and operate today.