The global network and its heroes

Published as advertising If we compare the age of the Russian-speaking Internet with the age of television or radio, then the global web is very young. The real development of the network falls on the beginning of the 90s. Remember this dashing time of coming changes and new opportunities?

It was then that such famous figures of computer technology as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and many others worked. No one at that time could even think that the global web has such a great and bright future. Today it is difficult to imagine that we can be left without information. The fact is that we live in an age of its glut. into the search box And by entering a query like “buy a car”, “ Aquatica slot machines online ”, “order a pizza” , we immediately get the result. We just got used to it for a long time. How else?

Believe it or not, the original purpose of the Internet was to send letters. And this position of the web suited everyone. It was convenient and very cheap. But every year new entertainment attracted more and more users from all over the world. The first computer machines were bulky and clumsy monsters that could barely add numbers. And the first telephone modems made such strange sounds that sometimes it seemed that these technologies were ridiculous and ridiculous. But progress requires speed and innovation, and by the beginning of the 90s, the web began to become global.

For example, the rapid growth of the Russian-speaking segment of the network falls on the beginning of the 2000s. Then its growth was 25%. It was a real sensation, as the world changed significantly and new industries and opportunities for ordinary users appeared. Of course, at that time no one thought about what online cinema, social networks or Vulkan slot machines were . Along with this, people got the opportunity to play with toys, communicate online and visit various forums. Nowadays, many users of our country have long been familiar with the Internet, and the younger generation does not see life outside the global web. Many of us spend the lion's share of our time at the computer desk, as the Internet has become not only an interesting pastime, but also a way to earn money.

Not so long ago, social networks such as Facebook and Vkontakte appeared, which brought huge fortunes to their creators. Bill Gates once said that if your business is not online, then it does not exist. As for the data for the Russian Federation for 2014, almost a third of the entire population of Russia uses the Internet, which is more than 60 million people. And who will answer the question: what kind of reality lies ahead for us? Ordinary life or cyberspace with its own rules of the game?