Instant messaging services. Chat rooms. An ever-expanding number of websites. And on top of it all, Google. Google has become as integral in our life as other brand-named necessities: Band-Aids, Kleenex, etc. I've tried to remember a time before search engines and high speed access to innumerable different sources of information. Fortunately or unfortunately, even modems existed in my childhood, and I grew up with the World Wide Web. I just can't imagine a world without it, let alone having lived at the library to write college papers.
Maybe what intrigues me most is the communicative uses of the Internet. AIM, Gchat, and email are overwhelmingly the landscape of my interaction with other people. It's highly likely that I talk to people more on the Internet than the phone or in person. Sure, everyone knows it, but everyone takes it for granted. Today, while watching TV I wanted to know who was acting in the show and a quick Google search routed me to IMDB, where every person ever involved with the show is listed for the whole world. And I stopped and thought: "Wow. How utterly unnecessary and useful."
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