Whoever came up with the idea to have blogging websites track statistics on how many people were viewing their blog was a genius. I realize I’m easily amused, but there’s a certain part of me that gets all giddy watching the pageviews on this blog slowly (um, very slowly) go up, and seeing that a few of the people looking at my pitiful blog are doing so from cool places like Germany, Russia, Uganda, and the Netherlands.
Granted, those are all are friends that happen to live in those respective places at the moment, but it highlights just how great the internet really is. See, in order to make a series of vain writings about myself and my personal thoughts on the world 100 years ago, I would have had to collect peoples’ addresses, buy a ton of stamps and envelopes, and write out (or type on a typewriter) the same message ad nauseum to send it out to all of my friends. They would have gotten there in a couple weeks, and most of them probably wouldn’t have been very happy to get a letter with that kind of stuff instead of a personal letter anyways.
But now, thanks to the wonders of modern technology, I can do all of that in about no time at all, and my friends on the other side of the world can read it in a matter of seconds. Awesome? Absolutely.
Besides, the internet has a way of making mundane things interesting. If you’re reading this, chances are that you’ve spent more time than you’d like to admit reading Wikipedia articles and opening all the links to stuff you don’t understand.
I, for one, have never found myself on Wikipedia at 2am with 20 tabs of varying astronomy and physics articles waiting to be read in the background. Never…
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