In 2018, the internet is everywhere. We rely on it to send texts, emails, interact on social media and check our homework. For the average American, it’s probably essential to daily life. In fact, It’s hard to imagine how much slower the world would move if the internet didn’t exist. Before the 1990s, this was reality. This website is about the internet era, which begins in 1993 and continues into the present.
Sam’s article starts the internet era off by highlighting the role that Netscape played in shaping the future of the internet industry. Netscape introduced internet users to the world of cyberspace through the Netscape Navigator, the world’s first web browser. Netscape’s rapid growth gave millions of people a glimpse of the technological awe that was the internet. This fueled a wave of positive publicity that glamorized Netscape as the magnificent ruler leading us into a new economy. It also inspired a generation of tech junkies by showing them that you could make a meaningful impact on the world through coding and that you could capitalize on it. Netscape’s success made startups sexy. Unfortunately, internet startups were a bit too sexy in the late 1990s. Founders and Investors during this time were unprepared for the massive bubble that the Internet’s hype was creating.
Cole’s page is titled What Created the Dotcom Bubble?. It looks into how the creation and the mass dispersion of the World Wide Web across the United States impacted the initial foundation of the Dotcom bubble. Important factors caused by the creation of the Web include; emergence of a new crop of day traders, ability of average Americans to trade on the stock market, poor business decisions, high market valuations of tech stocks and perhaps most important, the Taxpayers Relief Act of 1997. The creation of this bubble has been studied profusely, and it is crucial to understand why it occurred because that knowledge is necessary to predict future market trends. The emergence of new markets will continue to occur forever, and it is important to attempt to ease these new markets and new technologies into the stock market, without causing a major economic shift.
Stan’s article is concerned with history and issues behind social media. In the early 2000s, the development of social media platforms took a bump start. Living in a network society, people are constantly looking for tools for information exchange. Online social media platform could be one of the answers to the demand. However, before the
