Science and Scholarship in Poland on facebook - new attractions for Internet users
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The date of facebook debut has not been
accidental. 96 years earlier, on 25 January 1915, the telephone inventor
Alexander Bell used his invention to have the first conversation with a
person on the other side of the States via a cable with length of 5.5
thousand km. This event was a breakthrough for the distance
communication of people.
The New York Times wrote the next day: " On October 9, 1876, Alexander
Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson talked by telephone to each other over a
two-mile wire stretched between Cambridge and Boston. It was the first
wire conversation ever held. Yesterday afternoon [on January 25, 1915]
the same two men talked by telephone to each other over a 3,400-mile
(5,500 km) wire between New York and San Francisco. Dr. Bell, the
veteran inventor of the telephone, was in New York, and Mr. Watson, his
former associate, was on the other side of the continent. They heard
each other much more distinctly than they did in their first talk
thirty-eight years ago."
38 years! Such a long time had passed,
and the only accomplished improvement was to the quality of transmitted
sound and extending the cable. Hard to imagine considering the
development of telecommunications in recent decades. 38 years ago in
Poland (true, we were behind some other parts of the world) people had
to wait several years for the installation of a landline at home, and
ordered international calls at the post office. Today we perceive these
days like the Stone Age, or at least the age of steam engines. The
greatest progress has been made over the past several years.
Mobile
telephony appeared in Poland less than 20 years ago. In 1992 first
network launched its service. The mobile phones had a size of briefcases
and weight of large bricks, they did connect with the world. Their
development followed rapidly. Just a moment earlier the Internet reached
our country. Poland’s first domain “.pl” was registered on April 30,
1991. On August 17, 1991 University of Copenhagen Computer Centre
received the first e-mail sent from Poland, from the Faculty of Physics,
University of Warsaw. We will soon celebrate anniversaries of these
events.
Finally included in the global village community, Poles
began to text, send e-mails, chat and surf the web. We were discovering
yahoo and altavista search engines, websites operated by people from
around the world, and instant messaging. It gave us access to much
information and new ways to make money, and opened the world of
previously unknown fun, and even romance.
One of the first to
describ Internet cross-border love was Janusz Wiśniewski in the novel
“S@motność w Sieci” (Loneliness in the Net). Two characters use the
legendary IM, ICQ, allowing two-way communication by typing messages.
ICQ had an interesting, non-existent in today's instant messaging
feature, which allowed live tracking of the process of writing a
message. Internet user could watch letters appear on the screen as the
other person tapped them on the keyboard, and if something had to be
corrected, the process of deleting letters was also apparent.
This
amazing Internet networking tool today is almost as antique, as ebonite
telephone with a round face. But in its time ICQ was a revolution in a
technological, but above all human sense. Around this IM and the website
of its creators grew one of the first global web communities, which
discussed, played, made friends and shared experiences of historical
events. ICQ website was one of the first, where over several hours
millions of symbolic candles were lit. Today it is a well known symbol
[']. This happened after 11 September 2001. Among the millions were also
Polish candles.
With all these novelties we have irreversibly
joined to the world and since then we do not allow ourselves to be left
behind. Everything that appears abroad, automatically appears in Poland.
And here, too, on the Vistula River, the statement has become true that
a modern person, company, art project, social action, or any other
entity does not exist in the real world, if it’s not on the Internet.
From: PAP
last modification: 2011-02-09
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