Wow! The first thing that came to mind was typing a 50 page thesis on a typewriter and thinking I had it made because I had an erasable ribbon, so I didn't have to retype pages.
It is mind boggling how much technology has changed in the past ten years. It has become easy for anyone to share their knowledge, ideas, feelings and or anything else with the rest of the world. When I first started researching on the internet in 1994 only large organizations had a web presence in the form of Gopher. There were no graphics only numerical menus until you found what you were looking for. And you better bookmark it, because search engines were so poor you would never find it again.
Today anyone can have a web presence and can easily post anything they want. A computer is not even necessary as you can walk in any library and get internet access to research, correspond or post information. Mashups, blogs and other Web 2.0 things help us to find, share, organize and reformat data in ways never before available.
Search engines have evolved that can bring information to your computer screen instantly. And they keep evolving to develop more and more content for users.
It is exciting to see all the new technologies emerging and to be able to benefit from it.
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