World Wide Web

Internet Explodes into

Our Daily Lives
 Internet and Telegraph
The similarities of the mass media
advancement are very intriguing.
Samuel F. B. Morse invented Morse Code
a series of dots and dashes in the 1840s
First media to travel over great distances
in matter of seconds
Commercial use ended in 1999; replaced
obviously by more sophisticated media
 Internet Emerges
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates
satellites aid in point to point; speed up
process
What are we capable of sending via
internet today?
Internet radioonly broadcast on the web
Sound quality not as good
 Building On-Line Audiences
Forrester Research revealed core
ingredients necessary to build and
maintain a loyal on-line audience are
1)strong content 2)easy use 3)quick
download time and 4)frequent updating
Newspaper chains linked all papers
together and formed portal starting point
for newspaper searches
 MP3
Damn you Lars!
MP3 compression technology squeezes
information into smaller data files;
download very quickly
Movieslitigating as well
Netiquette
Regulation? What do you think?