Class Talks: Popularity

Something that I keep noticing about the popularity of different forms of media is how it grows. When something is first created, most of the time, people don't just automatically get used to it and incoorperate it into their everyday lives. It usually takes a while for something to gain popularity, but when people start to notice, its popularity sky-rockets. Internet, for example, was first created in 1969. It wasn't actually coined the term "internet" until 1974. When it started becoming popular though was in the 1990s. In 1995, there were 16 million users, and the next year there were 36 million users. That may seem like a big jump, but just 5 years later, there were over 500 million users, and a little over 10 years after that, 2.4 billion internet users. It really surprised me how long it takes something like the internet to get noticed, then how  it can become that popular that fast.

Class Talks: Movies

In Mr. Miller's class, we had a discussion on the history of movies and one thing that I learned that really intersted me was how different movies were when they first became popular compared to now. Movies were so popular in the early to mid twentieth century, that they were not only used much more, but they were also used for much more. Now, people go to the movies every once in a while to actually go see a movie with friends. Before, TVs hadn't become popular, so people would go to the movies weekly to not only see the movie, but for other things like advertisements and news. It was amazing how much the purpose of movies have changed overtime.