High-speed Internet has become a common-place in a lot of areas. It can be found in the air, on the water, and of course on land. Most homes have high speed internet along with restaurants, businesses, even planes and other places. It even comes in a wireless form. However, whereas it used to be a luxury, it is now a necessity.
People seem to have forgotten about what it was like to have dial- up. With dial-up, (cough AOL cough) you couldn’t use the phone while the internet was connecting at all. Not to mention, the horrible, annoying, fingernails on a chalkboard sound that came along with it. Oh, and who can forget the three yellow boxes in which a little stickman would appear as it loaded up showing you how close you were to being connected. On top of that, you had to wait on the pages to load and it took forever. A whole 40 seconds for one site, and that was when it moved fast! It may not seem that slow just looking at it, but when it is compared to today’s high speed internet, where it takes five seconds to load a gaming site, it is pretty slow.
Ah, glorious high- speed internet how we suffered before your creation. However there is a problem with switching to high-speed internet. Speeding up the internet in itself is fine and expected. As technology improves, people want things that are faster such as cars and motorcycles, so why not improve the internet’s speed. It makes complete sense. The only problem with this is that, as we speed the internet up, people tend to complain more when it doesn’t go as fast as they want. High-speed internet, even when moving as fast as possible, remains to slow for some people. These few impatient people are the ones who you see yelling at and hitting computers in public places. They are the ones that, should computers or robots take over the world, would be the computers prime targets.
Another problem that this sped up internet is causing, is that as people get used to their fast internet, some seem to think that everything in the world is going to speed up with it. People will expect that cashiers in the checkout line will magically speed up, or even better, the old people crossing streets will speed up. Amazing is it not. Some effects of this might be seen in road ragers shouting, “You move slower than my internet,” or in people constantly trying to speed other people up even when it is not possible.
Overall, I believe that while the internet’s speed increase may cause problems for certain people, it still is a very good idea, and I am very grateful for it.
