Vitacora Dos

Segunda Vitacora

Have you ever wondered how did the internet begin? Me neither, but in my Psychology and Social Media class we learned the very humble beginnings of it starting with; the telephone. Did you know that "tele" (Greek accent comes out) comes from the Greek word "tele" that means faraway, and "phone" comes from the Greek word "fono" that means voice. I hope you watched My Big Fat Greek Wedding, if not go google it. So, the word telephone means faraway voice, which makes sense. 

Anyways, it all started with this new technology that connected people from faraway, it had super humble beginnings where you had to both talk and hear from the same whole. After Americans had mastered the art of connecting, they were able to communicate from coast to coast and almost everyone had access to it. Then the US government was afraid that if there was an attack they would not be able to communicate, since whenever a telephone pole fell down the communication was down too. So they needed a new technology that would allow them to communicate even if a part of it was destructed. And guess what? They build it, they made it stronger with a beehive like system that allowed the information to travel through different canals even if one was broken. I think that the whole thing was inspired by someone watching an experiment with rats trying to escape a maze. 

It was fun to watch all those old devices and remember having to dial a disc telephone, those were annoying because if you messed up a number you had to hang up and start all over again. Talk about some patience right there. Phones started to evolute and people needed to be wireless so the huge cellphones that you can only watch in old movies and that were so cool back then appeared. If you compare those to our phones today; they are getting humangos like the oldie ones.. My phone cannot even fit in my pocket anymore, and the bigger your screen the cooler you are. 

Communication started to evolute and just like that today we are able to give our input and therefore created Social Media. Because if you didn't know, and I seem to be filled with fun facts today, social media is all those pages/apps/sites in the web that you can give feedback or contribute to the cause. For example, those cookie tutorials you upload to YouTube or those mean Tweets you made about something you were ranting about, you are contributing to the web and that my friend, makes you part of this big World Wide Web ohana.

Hopefully I didn't bore you with my fun facts and movie quotes, 

You know you love me,

XOXO

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