Seven inches of fresh snow fell overnight, making an odd spring image looking over the vase of daffodils on the desk outside the window. Just like looking from here to there, inside to outside, seasons juxtaposed, let's look at our present, much changed, from our times past. Things are now linked beyond what we could have ever thought possible.
March 2009 marks 20 years since Tim Berners-Lee first proposed a project that would become the World Wide Web. It took until 1993 before the public became aware of the creation and the general public didn't really come online until the mid-1990s with the commercialization of the AOL and Netscape browsers made navigation of the web easy.
Google officially launched in September 1998 and Facebook launched in 2004. Facebook has about 180 million users Facebook has 275 million users (57 million in the U.S.), as of the end of February, while Twitter only has about 10 million and is just three years old. The number of Facebook users over 35 has nearly doubled in the last 60 days.
Good things the internet has ruined forever? Well, newspapers are dying but we still debate if that is a good thing or not. Our economy is in a disruptive state, so are we. Ah.... the Ideas of March.
In case you've missed it, your might check out Pressthink http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/ on the future of news.
Good photo to illustrate our inside/outside times.
Posted by: naomi dagen bloom | March 28, 2009 at 09:15 AM
I like the information available but sometimes I think it's gone far too far. Heck!!! I pre-date AOL!!! I was online in the days of the old Fido and RIME networks. It was fun!!!
Posted by: Kay Dennison | March 28, 2009 at 02:27 PM