#culturallydmd

Without a doubt, technology, the World Wide Web, and many different applications or programs have made in huge impact in everyone’s life.  We see older generation trying to figure out how to use a computer and we see kids, young adults, and adults using mobile smart phones and tablets every day. Without the technology that we have today, we would most likely be living in a completely different world today. In my opinion, YouTube definitely caused the greatest disruption to the entertainment industries.  The reason why I think that it is the greatest disruption to the entertainment industries this period is because when YouTube was first launch in 2005 no one really expected it to have such a rapid growth.  YouTube probably started out with couple hundred million users, but now it has over a billion users today!  YouTube really changed many people’s aspect of entertainment because it is instant accesses and you can find almost anything you want to watch instantly.  

YouTube created jobs and opportunity for your everyday people and it gets people innovated to come up with many new video ideas that are different and very unique.  In the past, the way to get famous, fame, or popularity is probably only though television or become a musician. But YouTube allowed regular people to get creative and become popular themselves. There are musicians out there that have gotten great opportunity because of the fame they acquired from YouTube.  There are many YouTubers on YouTube that have a full time job making money on YouTube by producing more content.  They would have sponsor and they will get paid by the amount of views and likes they have on their videos.  

The World Wide Web was founded by Tim Berners-lee, a British scientist at CERN, on March of 1989. The original idea of the web being developed was to allow scientists in universities and institutes around the world to be able to share information among each other.  His visions that people would put their researches and documents up on the World Wide Web so that anyone in the world can assess that information to be innovative and gain more knowledge.  On April 30, 1993, CERN put the World Wide Web software in the public domain.  It basically maximized its dissemination for the people and made it free for anyone. On the statement for releasing the World Wide Web into public domain says “The W3 project provides a collaborative information system independent of hardware and software platform, and physical location.  The project spans technical design notes, documentation, news, discussion, education material, personal notes, publicity, bulletin boards, live status information and numerical data as a uniform continuum, seamlessly integrated with similar information in other disciplines” (Statement Concerning CERN W3 Software Release Into Public Domain)