The Internet

Thinking about my last post and all the things that I use the Internet for. I was just blown away by thought. I use AIM to talk to friends across the country, Flickr to share photos with the friends and the world, RSS to monitor the news, Bit Torrent to timeshift the TV shows I want to watch, the Wikipedia to share knowledge with the world, podcasting (the iPodder lemon client and iTunes) to receive news and all kinds of other good shows, and my blog to communicate what's going in my world. Almost all of those technologies is radically different from what I was doing four years ago when I was a freshman in high school. I was able to get only a few tv shows online and never consistently. RSS, Bit Torrent, podcasting, and a wiki would have all been new to me. Blogging and using AIM were about the only things I would have been doing/using on a daily basis. Sure I was creating my own pages to share photos with and was creating my own pages to form some kind of static wiki, but that stuff wasn't nearly as cool as what's going on now.

The Internet is amazing and I am thankful for that. This post should be fun to revisit in four more years.