Most of the people that use the World Wide Web today cannot remember when it was only accessible through a dialup connection.
At that time, if you wanted to watch a short 2 minute video, you needed to download the video, and that could take an hour or more.
The technology that has made high speed internet access available virtually everywhere; is not only overwhelming, but it is also improving at an incredible rate.
As with most things in the world today, technology is the driving force that is enhancing the quality of our lives.
If you are very new to the internet, it will be very difficult, if not impossible for you to understand how far it has come in such a short period.
Today, there are websites like YouTube, where you can post your own videos, and watch videos put up by other people.
This simply would not be possible without high speed internet access.
Back when the only thing that was available was a dialup connection, just viewing a nice sized photograph could take a few minutes or more, because it took that long to load up.
If the newcomers to the internet had to wait that long for a video, there would not be any sites like YouTube.
Today, you can even watch TV shows or movies online, which of course would be impossible without a high speed internet connection.
Today, there are voice over internet protocol (VOIP) companies like Skype or Iconnect, which allow you to use your computer to call anywhere in the world and talk to the person on the other end for free.
In fact, the internet has become so powerful and sophisticated, you can even use you telephone to make calls over it.
Of course, without a high speed internet connection, this would have been virtually impossible to achieve.
The companies behind these drastic improvements are not only the hardware manufacturers, but a significant amount of the upgrades have been made possible because of software developers.
In fact, if you ask the experts which industry is more responsible for the high speed internet we have today, you will receive conflicting answers.
Far too many people that are new to the World Wide Web really do not appreciate the high speed internet we have today, which is kind of sad.
But, then again, they never had to deal with a dialup connection, because if they did, they would surely realize how great everything is presently.
At that time, if you wanted to watch a short 2 minute video, you needed to download the video, and that could take an hour or more.
The technology that has made high speed internet access available virtually everywhere; is not only overwhelming, but it is also improving at an incredible rate.
As with most things in the world today, technology is the driving force that is enhancing the quality of our lives.
If you are very new to the internet, it will be very difficult, if not impossible for you to understand how far it has come in such a short period.
Today, there are websites like YouTube, where you can post your own videos, and watch videos put up by other people.
This simply would not be possible without high speed internet access.
Back when the only thing that was available was a dialup connection, just viewing a nice sized photograph could take a few minutes or more, because it took that long to load up.
If the newcomers to the internet had to wait that long for a video, there would not be any sites like YouTube.
Today, you can even watch TV shows or movies online, which of course would be impossible without a high speed internet connection.
Today, there are voice over internet protocol (VOIP) companies like Skype or Iconnect, which allow you to use your computer to call anywhere in the world and talk to the person on the other end for free.
In fact, the internet has become so powerful and sophisticated, you can even use you telephone to make calls over it.
Of course, without a high speed internet connection, this would have been virtually impossible to achieve.
The companies behind these drastic improvements are not only the hardware manufacturers, but a significant amount of the upgrades have been made possible because of software developers.
In fact, if you ask the experts which industry is more responsible for the high speed internet we have today, you will receive conflicting answers.
Far too many people that are new to the World Wide Web really do not appreciate the high speed internet we have today, which is kind of sad.
But, then again, they never had to deal with a dialup connection, because if they did, they would surely realize how great everything is presently.
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