“Sashi Tharoor was the pioneer in the twitter wars. The first twitter war started in the year 2009/10 with Tharoor and Modi leading the front… “, this may be very well a chapter about Indian Social Networking in the subject Internet History. I think we are almost done with the classical or stone age in the world of Internet. Man is learning to speak in the internet; he is learning to communicate, form societies and groups, trying to show his likes and dislikes. Tweets are for minute by minute update, facebook for hourly, blogs for his daily journal entry. The invention of social networking has sparked a virtual fire around the world.
The Stone Age man rubbed stones together and created fire. Our internet man exchanged few tweets and created controversies. What does this mean to us? We have started using internet more than as a medium of entertainment to medium of everything except physical (hope research is being carried out there too). He is turning more inwards, into his computer/laptop/mobile. The wheel of information has started to roll. Hour by hour, minute by minute, second by second bytes of information circle around through various websites. You get up and find your toothbrush being chewed by your dog, you update your status first not thinking of buying another brush or washing the existing one and using it. We are still exploring what we can do with this internet, as the pre age man would have tried with the wheel and the fire.
We are also forming communities, castes, groups in the net world. A whole lot new social structure is being created through specific websites for specific purposes. Hackers, developers, leechers, seeders, bloggers, downloaders, gamers, blah blah, it goes on. From cooking to sex, from fitness to movies, barter to trading all social human activities are brought into internet. Television might soon become a thing of the past. Youtubes and metcafes will broadcasts TV sops and sports, ads will run through all around the sites giving people relief of the ad breaks but reducing the viewing screen. Parents will poke their children in fb to call them for breakfast/dinner. Relatives will save money on gifts and sweets for ex. “Ranganathan and Family sent a Home theatre to Prem & Aruna through giftyrelatives”… and the reply would be “Prem & Aruna received the gift with thanks and send a box of chocolates through chochychochy.com”.
After the movement of tectonic plates and the setting up of earth’s crust, we are laying the fibre optics like grated cheese on pizza and setting up the movement of internet which is going to redefine the world. And mind you, we are going to get excess lazy with the excess cheese. But mind you, this cheese is going to hold people together. Internet a very much needed fat.
The Stone Age man rubbed stones together and created fire. Our internet man exchanged few tweets and created controversies. What does this mean to us? We have started using internet more than as a medium of entertainment to medium of everything except physical (hope research is being carried out there too). He is turning more inwards, into his computer/laptop/mobile. The wheel of information has started to roll. Hour by hour, minute by minute, second by second bytes of information circle around through various websites. You get up and find your toothbrush being chewed by your dog, you update your status first not thinking of buying another brush or washing the existing one and using it. We are still exploring what we can do with this internet, as the pre age man would have tried with the wheel and the fire.
We are also forming communities, castes, groups in the net world. A whole lot new social structure is being created through specific websites for specific purposes. Hackers, developers, leechers, seeders, bloggers, downloaders, gamers, blah blah, it goes on. From cooking to sex, from fitness to movies, barter to trading all social human activities are brought into internet. Television might soon become a thing of the past. Youtubes and metcafes will broadcasts TV sops and sports, ads will run through all around the sites giving people relief of the ad breaks but reducing the viewing screen. Parents will poke their children in fb to call them for breakfast/dinner. Relatives will save money on gifts and sweets for ex. “Ranganathan and Family sent a Home theatre to Prem & Aruna through giftyrelatives”… and the reply would be “Prem & Aruna received the gift with thanks and send a box of chocolates through chochychochy.com”.
After the movement of tectonic plates and the setting up of earth’s crust, we are laying the fibre optics like grated cheese on pizza and setting up the movement of internet which is going to redefine the world. And mind you, we are going to get excess lazy with the excess cheese. But mind you, this cheese is going to hold people together. Internet a very much needed fat.
