Blog #4

 

The World Wide Web was invented in 1989 by scientist Tim Berners-Lee, who worked for a company called CERN.  Cern is, "not an isolated laboratory, but rather the focal point for an extensive community that includes more than 17 000 scientists from over 100 countries." It was originally invented to share automated information between scientists in Universities and Institutes. They never intended on it going any farther than that until they realized how amazing the World Wide Web was at sharing information for one another. That's why on April 30th 1993, CERN released the World Wide Web to the public.  The first public website ever created was info.cern the site was a very basic white screen with black arial text that simply just told us how to navigate the web. At first there wasn't a web browser that could be used and then there was one that was developed by Time Berners-Lee as well. The search browser was called NeXT which has a ton of the same qualities that are still used in web browsers today, and it also gave you the ability to modify pages from inside the browser making it the first web editing skill on the World Wide Wed.

As we know, the World Wide Web has had a massive impact on us to this day. It makes it much easier for us to communicate with literally anyone in the world, and allows us to share and receive information much easier between friends, families, and news corporations. Now despite all these good things, there are also people out there that believe that the World Wide Web has had a very negative impact on society. The reason for this is because with the World Wide Web comes things like security breaches, cyber theft, and internet addiction which are three things that have had a bit of an impact on my life and people close to me. For example, some guy from China hacked my parents email about 5 years ago and got the password to all of their accounts. The guy ended up spending over $400 dollars on their Amazon account. After a week my parents finally got the issue resolved until the hacker came back and did it agin, restarting the entire process. Another example is one of my friends saw a cute picture of a dog on Gofundme and the owner didn't have enough money to pay for the dog's surgery so my friend donated $20 to go towards the dog's surgery. The next day my friend got his debit card information pulled and had a $70 charge on his account on some random music website that he never visited before. Also nowadays you see a ton of people, specifically millennials that are nonstop on their phones constantly scrolling through social media. Although social media isn't all bad, it definitely hurts our skills to socialize with others. These three things along with other consequences that comes with the Web like fake news and cyber bullying is enough in some people's eyes to say that we'd actually be better off without the World Wide Web.