Compare how you use the Web & social media today with how Taylor & Roberts imagined we would use the Internet. What is the same? What is different?
I dont think that Taylor and Roberts would have quite envisioned what the internet has become in relation to social media/silly things that us as the broad based consumer uses the internet for in 2019. I think that the network that provides us the ability to do so what EXACTLY what they had in mind while conducting their research and building the ground floor. That does not mean that they would not be absolutely satisfied with what it has become though. We now have a network that with lightning fast speeds that transfers data and information from one end of the globe to another, which regardless of whether its sharing a cute cat pic, or military operations, was their ultimate goal from the beginning whether they realized it or not. Based on their contributions we were able to create a place where content, ideas, and information allows us to create anything that we can imagine…and then share it to anyone who is interested in it! The idea of information sharing from one source to another is still on a base level the exact same as what Taylor and Roberts had in mind. As time went on and people realized the full capabilities of the internet to make it what it is today. Taylor and Roberts maybe couldnt quite predict the advent of social media and all the other things it came to be. But they would be proud with knowing that regardless of WHAT information that is being shared it fulfills their vision of a connected network.
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