Internet (Eng)

Internet, the most important technological
Development of the past fifty years

The 21th century is known for the huge technological progress, but all that progress is thanks to de invention ofthe 20th century. So, what is most important technological development of the past fifty years? The internet, used by more than 1.100 millions of people would be the most important technologicaldevelopment of the past fifty years because of the many ways for using it and for the importance in others technological inventions.

The internet is a global system of interconnected computer networksthat consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless and optical networkingtechnologies. Internet’s origin reaches back to a research in 1962 by USA government, and it was in 90s decade when it was open worldwide. Now around one quarter of global population use internet.Internet can be used in a lot of ways. It can be used as entertainment, there are a lot of games you can play using internet. Also you can use internet to keep in contact with your friends or family viamail, or even you can do a video call, which will let both, your friend and you, to talk and see each other at the same time. There is also an educational way to use internet, with it you can searchabout any subject you are interested in, and it is really useful to help with homework. Thanks to the internet now if you don’t know something or there is a subject you are interested in, you can searchit with different web pages such as Google, Yahoo, etc. There are more ways of using internet, for example you can buy online, see videos online, etc.
Now at days internet is really important. Mostof the technological developments of this decade incorporate a lot of system that needs internet. The IPod is a good example for this, for downloading music or video you need internet, there is an...