Nowadays the internet has become our primary means of communication. Messages that took weeks to reach their destination now only take one minute at the most. In the case of urgent messages, telegrams that had at the most 3 sentence messages (in order to avoid a higher delivery cost) had to be relayed through trained professionals. Now you can simply send a text message free of cost from your personal phone.
Most of these developments in communication technology have stemmed from one single invention: the internet. “It was the launch of Sputnik by the USSR that spurred the U.S to create the agency which became known as DARPA in February 1958 with the idea of regaining a technological lead over the USSR. (…) As a first step they aimed to connect computers at the Pentagon, Cheyenne Mountain and Strategic Air Command Headquarters (SAC). (..) The funding of a new U.S. backbone by the National Science Foundation in the 1980s, as well as private funding for other commercial backbones, led to worldwide participation in the project and the merger of many networks. The commercialization of what was by the 1990s an international network resulted in its popularization and incorporation into virtually every aspect of modern human life. Today, more than a quarter of the world’s population uses the Internet.” (DENNING, 2013).
With the invention of the internet, communication became increasingly simpler, faster and more effective. Several internet based programmes allow the enhacement of communication with loved ones both near and far. Skype allows you to videochat with family members and friends. Facebook allows you to share pictures with your entire friend network and allows them to comment and share them as well. Hotmail and Gmail both provide an email service that sends and stores all emails into a central database so as to never fear loosing them.
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