One main point I took from this although just used with a few words, it that the internet is up against tv and video games, I found this interesting, because I never looked at it in that sense, but after reading a little bit here and doing other readings, these two things really do take on a type of competition with internet. I think this is interesting because these two things actually tie into the internet, so in a sense, they can be their competition, along with their allies.
Another interesting thing was about W3, and its basically the URL's, HTTP's, and HTML's, these are important because these are the addresses that control the internet. These allow you to control what you are viewing as a valid address. These control the transferring of data and information you are taking in, this is important, because this allows you to actively navigate through the web.
Another thing I found interesting was labeled in the "Future" portion, this is because where it says, "integration with concurrent editors and other real-time features, such as teleconferencing and virtual reality". Now this is important because these things now are happening or have happened. I think that I can relate this to when as a kid my grandpa used to talk to me as a kid about touch screen media, games, tv's, phones..etc. I say this because with these things that we use we see so much growth within these media's and how they are so vastly changing.
It was interesting, I too never thought of TV and video games as a competitor of the internet. They are indeed intertwined though. I also found the future section to be interesting. To imagine where we used to be as a society and how technology was back in the day. And, to imagine much it has grown in even these past few years, and where we will be in five or ten years.
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