Blog 6.1: Technology from another group

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 Internet

    Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web in 1990. He worked for a company called CERN which was a European Organization. Positives - Limitless Information, more ways to communicate

YouTube
    Created by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim on February 14th, 2006. Positives - Opened the door for new content needs, new form in income. Negatives - Allowed people to hide behind comments to be rude to others.


Google    
    Sergey Brin and Larry Page struck up a friendship and launched their search engine "backrub".
In 1998 the original "Google Beta" was created. Positives - Research Tool, Can be used for advertising, custom search engine. Negatives - Not everything you find is true, expensive to advertise.

The Printing Press
    Formally invented by Johannes Gutenberg in 1439. He created a specific metal that was durable enough. Impactful on the progression of the Renaissance, Reformation of the Catholic Church, and the Scientific Revolution. Created space for a new political, social, economic thought wave. Affected literature and history as we know it. 

Facebook
    At Harvard, Mark Zuckerberg came up with "Thefacebook" in 2004. He previously worked on a project with his friends at Harvard, but they sued him since they thought he stole their ideas. He was just a programmer of Facebook, then in November of 2005, he left Harvard to become the CEO of Facebook. Negatives- Privacy issues, time consuming, cyberbullying.


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