As the world became bombarded with information and current news sending independently from materiality, we then saw the emergence of technology and systems such as the telegraph or telephone which has the ability to coordinate the movements of goods, and also having control over operation, over long distances. Also in the same time it decouple information and things which is something makes communication different because it used to come in materials format like letter.
Before this, to control people information have to be one side, now , the information has become from anywhere, to control millions of people from 10 thousand miles away from the place.
And when we talk about today’s world. We have Internet. The faster and convenience way for us to get information compared to telegraph in those days. Then, information doesn’t come with the materials anymore, it comes with the code, until today we have instant messaging. Internet is basically a hyper version of telegraph system. People can follow events in real time and the stock market. Using telegraph machine to send information which gives the rise of sports to public interest. Weather reports appears.
When I was young, we doesn’t have any WiFi, Unifi or even Streamyx kind of thing, we used to online through dial up from our house phone line.
Remember the Dial-up noise when u connected to the internet? And if you went and picked up the telephone this sound would probably blow out your eardrums and then having to start all over again sometimes if it get disconnected. My mom used to yell at me like this:”HEY GET OFF THE COMPUTER! I NEED TO USE THE PHONE!” 😀 This is something that the kids nowadays will never hear and understand.
Today, the internet is changed a lot in terms of speed, accessibility and much more. It is always too fast for the truth, it is too fast to spread a news in just a minute to be up in all the social media like Facebook or Twitter. We are now connected still, but in a different and faster way.
References:
Sterling, B. (1993) ‘A Short History of the Internet’ File History of the Internet’ accessed 12 August 2014.https://moodle.uowplatform.edu.au/pluginfile.php/245647/mod_resource/content/1/Sterling%2C%20B.%20-%20A%20Short%20History%20of%20the%20Internet.pdf
Willterminus, 2008, The Sound of dial-up Internet, (online video), November 9 2008, viewed August 12 2014.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0
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