Internet Makes Everything Possible

What is the most well-known technology that has been improved and innovated a lot during these days? If we asked this question to anyone on the streets, workplaces or schools, I think the majority of people would say “It is the Internet”. And why would they choose the Internet as the most developed new technology? One obvious point is that the Internet brings us some new choices to do familiar things rapidly. As for the world has been changed quickly by the Internet use, there are three main different ways of doing things from the past: multiple choices of communication to other people, new business models, and ways of getting information promptly.
First of all, the diversity of communication to people is one direct way which they can see the differences from the past few years. One big difference is how people send their messages to contact each other. Nowadays most of the public tend to write a virtual e-mail or e-card on the computers then send a real letter or card through local post offices. Another point of communicational difference is people can use on-line chatting programs to talk to more people at one time. People installed these instant on-line chatting programs such as MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, AOL, Skype and so on, so they could use them to communicate with their friends and not just one by one as old days. In the past, people could only use telephones to talk to a friend one time but now through these programs, they were not able to have a small group of meeting or discussion on-line together. That is why the general populace consider internet chatting are more suitable for them.
The second change is new business models have been created. Take the advertisements for example, ten years ago, if you were looking for a place to live, a car to buy, a place to eat or find a job, people usually look for the advertised pages on the newspaper or some kind of paper advertisements you got from your mailbox. The advertising was very simple and dull which might took us a long time to find out the one we need; it felt like to look for a needle in a haystack. And now, we have a more sufficient way which could save us more time and to sift the exact information we want. Another main point is shopping on-line,