Are you aware that the ‘Internet’ was invented in 1969 as a part of the US Dept of Defense (Communication) plan against Russia? And that it went public only in 1993? Also that the WWW which is only just one of its add-on is only eighteen years old? Yes but as the internet soon developed into an indispensable system with many such new add-ons and embellishments it quickly became the world’s most traveled communication motor way with the www becoming its most frequently used pit stops. So much so that it feel its been around in our lives like forever!
For A Writer
What we don’t realize as writers is perhaps how integral this has become to our very existence as writers. It has not only changed the way we think and communicate but even the very way we write and evolve.
Modern writing has probably evolved in new ways only because of the speed with it’s written out and the speed with it is transmitted. Aren’t our ‘books’ first pounded out on the machine and stored on the www before it is sent on its way? Would we be able to do so without them I wonder?
And for freelancers- bliss! It gives us an address, an id and a whole new library to call on-as it is often said- without having to move from our chairs. To research and reference without a care in the world!
Actually not many of us realize that the internet and the www are two completely different creations. While the www is a database that stores information the internet is the network it runs on.
Yes the www is that encyclopedia which you as a writer always wished for! And the internet its runway that takes your thoughts places! And with the way, new electronic ideas seem to be sprouting, very soon we may need nothing at all- no browser, no server not even a machine just a snap of a finger to get connected.
And then bugging resilient editors would just became a whole lot more fun, wouldn’t you say?
A Boon
It has also brought the world and its views into our homes. Not necessarily a good thing but for a writer-heaven!
It has brought every book, magazine and paper right onto our desk!
To read, to comment, to write on, or enjoy. And that is the magic it weaves.
It is for a writer the single most important invention since the Egyptians discovered the papyrus. A boon that saves time and much energy. No more scribbling, no more erasing. Writing, rewriting, chopping changing just became that much faster. Allowing many a writer and author to flourish and bloom overnight in a paperless world!
Today, it is not our postal addresses that are exchanged but our email ids.
Today surfing is no longer about the sun, sea and the waves it is about how to garner information when we write.
Today getting an address on the net, our own page, our site on the web, our URL is what could take us places as writers.
And today we salute Tim Berner Lee and Robert Cailliau the creators of the WWW who in 1990 twenty one years after the internet was first conceived, not only changed the way the world conceptualized itself but revolutionized its very existence!
Let us, as writers celebrate its coming of age. Write, print, publish, and create as never before-using our best friends.
- Sreelata Menon
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