Why the internet is amazing

The world wide web has become to greatest thing invented in human history. With it, information is available literally at your fingertips, the world of communication has expanded to unprecedented levels with phone calls now available for FREE, relationships and social networking now heavily rely on the power of the internet as well. So ask yourself, can you really live without the internet without being considered outdated, primal, or stone-aged? Honestly, the answer is no. Simply, if you are not using the internet, you are clearly an outcast of society.

Specifically, why is the web so amazing? Well, the resources would be its most notable attributes. One can skip the process of searching for the girl of their dreams by using Match.com. They would simply put in their 'likes', 'dislikes', physical characteristics, etc...and find someone looking for those qualities or something close.

I remember being around 8 years old, and going on road trips with my family to places we've never been before. Inevitably we would get lost, and my dad would pull out a big book with hundreds of maps of different areas of the country. we would have to find where we were, where we want to go, and route a set of intricate directions to get from point a to point b. Now, we have maps.Google.com where one can simply type in the address of their destination and in less than a second, will have their trip planned out with alternative routes pending on toll roads, traffic hours, local, or highway.

Who remembers those terrible research papers back in middle school where one would have to tediously cite their sources in a certain format relative to the type of source. You know what I mean, newspapers, internet articles, scholarly journals, etc...Well, now they have something called noodletools.com where you can type in the exact source you had, and the site will format it, MLA, APA, etc to what you want it to be. No more..this in "", or italicize that...the site does everything for you!

Of course I have to mention the online shopping sites. notably, Amazon.com and Ebay.com. these two sites have revolutionized the world of shopping. A virtual super store with clothing, sporting goods, food, computer parts...everything you can possible imagine, is on the market in amazon or ebay.

I'd like to mention a not so popular site called wolframalpha.com this website is the first computational knowledge engine. what does this mean? If you type in any computational equation (e.g. derivative of log (x), demographics of..., or you can even do as far as adding colors!) yes, this is the first website I have come across that can compute almost anything! I feel that this is a breakthrough in search engines and we will be seeing more of things like this in the future. Wolfram is indeed impressive. So if you are bored or have some calculus webwork to do, just give it a try.