This is my first blog post for MGT 455 and I wanted to reflect on a few things that were mentioned in class on Wednesday. Dr. Thatcher discussed the topic of the "Victorian Internet" and the history of information technology and it was very insightful for me to hear about this. It made me start to think about what kind of improvements and innovations will happen to information technology in the future.
We discussed how primitive forms of information technology can be traced back to early human civilizations that used things such as smoke signals, signal towers in the 18th century, and eventually Morse Code and telegraphs to communicate to each other. The advent of these technologies was revolutionary for their time and played a vital role in how countries and civilizations operated. What was amazing to me was to see how something like a signal tower that could eventually send a message across a country evolved into the information highway known today as the modern internet, where information can be received in a matter of seconds. This made me think that if such a drastic change could happen in the timespan of 250 years, what kind of advances will the next 250 years bring to the IT industry?
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