The World Wide Web

The World Wide Web

By Jonathan Morales

The theme that I like the most was the World Wide Web. The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a Web browser, one can view Web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them using hyperlinks*

With this invention we can say that the world is “united” not only by sharing information between the hyperlinks -is a reference or navigation element in a document to another section of the same document or to another document that may be on or part of a (different) domain*-, but by communities themselves, we can interact with people in real time and instantly. This happens thanks to Windows Messenger, AOL, Facebook, Myspace and others service that World Wide Web provides us so we can talk with our love ones. More recently, the World Wide Web “attacks” the youth and the not so young, this happened when the video game companies starts to looked at the internet access as part of the in-game experiences, developing a concept where two or more people can play and interact at the same time, but not in the same console: the split screen system, the first steps to Xbox Live and Playstation Network –PSN- . Now the online experience is the next best thing. Maybe in a near future, kids around the world won’t have to go to a video game store to buy a full game, because he or she can buy it at home.

Video sharing with YouTube, this is something great. If you want to see something now you can see it, this is much better than MTV or TiVO. The only thing that isn’t so great about it is that if this is the way that things are going to work for now on, there is not going to be a lot of face to face communication and yet again is the world really “united” then. But that is not all; there will a lost sensibility to the print material. There will be no kids in the world that will read something or anything, because the like to read, they are going to do it just because they have to. The only thing that people read now is the instructions. There is something that is related to this that I used in class, when we have to read something for a class, we can have access to a good summary and make a nice work, just like the person who buy the book, now, we are taking the chance of not knowing the whole story and in the exam we could fail.

This are some of the examples of why we most have a balance and do the face to face talk, we can sign in to Windows Messenger and other things in the World Wide Web and in the “real” World. There is only one fact that we have to accept, the world is evolving. There are so many thing that we ca do now days and there are a lot of things that we are going to be doing in a near future – in the technological topic -. Within a simple idea we find a big and complex world that is really “united” by this invention of the World Wide Web, but is not united in the humanitarian style, all the time we can see people is less human and more like a machine.