How Has the Internet Changed Our Lives? Part 1

There is little question that the internet has changed our lives. But sometimes, when you’re looking from afar at a forest, it’s difficult to see the trees! Today we begin a multi-part look at the specifics of how the internet and web marketing have changed our lives, right down to the nitty-gritty.

Things were very different before the internet...

1. The word “Google’ entered our vocabulary as a verb – to “Google” something
2. The net has made it possible for us to buy whatever we need, from pretty much anywhere in the world. As long as you’re willing to pay the delivery charge, of course.
3. We can now hunt down (no, not ‘stalk’!) old friends from school, thanks to the one social networking site that just about everybody on the planet uses – Facebook.
4. We can also keep in touch with people we have no interest in stalking far more easily via any social networking site.
5. The internet has made the world seem a lot smaller. Prior to the real development of the online environment, we depended on the television news (or the little-read ‘World’ section in the Saturday paper) to get our overseas news. Now we can get intimate details about almost any other country’s politics, culture, challenges and people.

It’s amazing to think of a world without internet and web marketing now – we continue our overview of life pre-W3 next time!