The "Great Leveling of Humanity"



In today's world, almost everybody uses the Web.  From kids with IPhone's googling things, to researchers in labs studying, there is something useful for everyone.  Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, intended for the Web to be a way to provide and share information with the world using the internet, and that is exactly what happened.  It has completely changed the world, putting all the information you could ever want to know right at your fingertips. 

Technology is more advanced today than it has ever been, and it will only continue to improve.  But it wasn’t always this way.  Berners-Lee successfully launched the Web in 1989, and it has only grown.  It’s faster, more easily accessible, and almost a necessity at this point.  Almost everyone accesses the internet at least once a day.  Businesses have migrated to the web, some are even exclusively web based.  Now you can get a job without even leaving your house.  We use the web for school and work, to check the weather, and to get news.  It has taken priority over newspapers and magazines which were once so popular.   Personally I use the Web every day, most of the time through my cellphone, to tell me where to go, what to do, to see what is happening in the world, and so much more.  

Overall the Web was created in 1989 to share information and make it more easily accessible, but Tim Berners-Lee, or anyone else, could never have imagined what it would turn into.  It has made everyday life for people all over the world more efficient and convenient, and has completely changed the world.  The Web has become a way of life and I can only imagine it will continue to evolve in the years to come. 



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