internet essay

Title: internet essay
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 677 | Pages: 2.9 (approximately 235 words/page)

internet essay

The Greatest Technological Achievement of the 20th Century The Internet Nearly five hundred and fifty years ago, Johann Gutenberg revolutionized the world when he developed the first printing press with movable metal type in Europe in 1450. History repeated itself thirty years ago, when the world was revolutionized again when the Internet was developed. The Internet provided, like the printing press, new ways for people to communicate ideas and is probably the most important way of …showed first 75 words of 677 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 677 total…both share common traits, which link them together in history. Both of these events share common threads yet are unique within themselves. Both were revolutionary communications media, which changed the way information was spread. They differed by technology, speed of communication, and form of communication. "Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press is widely thought of as the origin of mass communication" The Internet is also thought of as a new form of mass communication.

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