One Web Day
September 20, 2007 at 4:27 pm | In Homelearning, Personal |
The Web is worth celebrating.
OneWebDay is one day a year we all — everyone around the physical globe — can celebrate the web and what it means to us as individuals, organizations, and communities.In honor of OneWebDay, I asked my parents and grandparents about what the Internet means to them. I asked the same four questions to each of them, and here are their answers:
How did you spend your time prior to the creation of the Internet?
- Person 1: “I went outside a lot more than kids do today. We spent more time with outside with the neighbors.”
- Person 2: “I’m a home-maker so I raised the kids, cleaned the house and went shopping.”
- Person 3: “I read the newspaper and watched the news on television a lot more instead of just looking it up online.”
Were things harder to do compared to now?
- Person 1: ”It was harder to do research. You had to go the the library and use more encyclopedias and books. Now you can just google it.”
- Person 2: “Nothing was really that much harder. Not for me anyway.”
- Person 3: “It was much harder to get accurate information for research.”
What things were easier to do?
- Person 1: “It was better to talk face to face with people or over the phone instead of IM or e-mail.”
- Person 2: ”Well nowadays you have to worry a lot more about identity theft and things like that.”
- Person 3: “Nothing was a great deal easier for me without the internet since I’m a business worker.”
How has it affected the way you live and work?
- Person 1: “Now we can communicate much easier. And the web has improved business quality and production.”
- Person 2: “It’s easier for me to pay bills at home and shop online.”
- Person 3: “It helps business a tremendous amount and lets me get information extremely fast. I’m also more involved with sports than ever. I own a Fantasy Football Team and I’m checking scores daily.”
I would like to thank the people that let me interview them for this assignment.
Happy OneWebDay! (9/22/07)
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