Evolving Communication
Sunday, June 7th, 2009These days are moving very fast. Information is literally at our finger tips. Communication with so many people simultaneously has never happened as it does now.
Think about it for a second, at one time, people could only speak to one another in close distance. OK – Maybe someone can stand from the top of a hill at and yell at his highest ability and may be able to reach a few people below.
So then, we were introduced with the Telegraph, 2-Way Radios, then the Telephone……
Fast forward a little bit more, then we had guys in their basements with HAM Radios, then next came CB Radios which no longer needed to be STATIONARY –>>> then this led to Cellular Phones, and Nextels fine network of Direct Connect with Cellular Telephone.
Stop at this time period for a second. This must be 1985 – 1995. Cell Phones are getting more and more popular.
More people are able to connect with more people in greater distances.
One ‘user’ of the telephone network had the possibility of contacting all other members of that same telephone network …… but without the ability to contact all ‘users’ simultaneously
During this period, other ‘networks’ were created and rolled out to the ‘users’ for further testing. USENET, which if you don’t remember was the protocol of Internet Newsgroups. A place were people could post messages in ‘threads’ or channels’ and receive replies in that same concurrent thread. Around the same time another protocol was getting popular and still is to this day, IRC (Internet Relay Chat). This is absolute real time, channeled, focused, text only communication accessible by any user via the internet network, or the world-wide-web.
This was a significant achievement because now a medium is created where many different users from a network can connect to one another (almost) simultaneously was available world-wide.
Fast forward to present day, where everyone HAS a cell phone.
Nearly everybody sends text messages. OK Maybe you don’t often but I bet you know how to send one by now!
Many people have laptops, and WiFi is becoming more prevalent.
Hey if you are reading this you probably have a damn smart phone too!
The point is, the reason that Twitter has gotten so popular is because computer internetworking has advanced far enough through observation only — they can know reach the masses — the common man.
It’s it getting real close, and it’s a semantic web! 
This was good, it made me tired now I can sleep.