Connected to the World

We live in the most connected era that ever existed. Throughout history the means of communicating around the world have been slow and not nearly as efficient as we have it today. In today's society we can communicate to nearly everyone around the world, without leaving our houses. We have found ways to make this easy access of the world for use as entertainment, from Facebook or Twitter, to Youtube, to forum sites like Reddit or Tumblr. We have found a way for everybody online to get connected to each other. But this doesn't only serve the purpose of entertainment, it's used for technological advancements as well. Before the internet or even cellphones, the ways of communicating new findings lied in word of mouth, or by newspapers, or mail or many other ways, but none so fast as the internet. We didn't have the internet to post it so that billions of people could see it. So, the point of this blog post is to bring awareness to the often overlooked fact, that the internet, is really an amazing thing. It's easy to forget because we use it so often it's just become a way of life for us, but it really is amazing considering it's only almost 28 years old.